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Kiriri Farms (U) Limited and Another v Bugaywa (Miscellaneous Application 114 of 2022)

High Court · [2022] UGHCLD 305 · 2022 Preliminary Objection Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application to dismiss or strike out the respondent's suit arising from Civil Suit No. 25 of 2018
Decision
Application dismissed; main suit to proceed to hearing

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Holding

The court overruled the applicants' preliminary objection seeking to strike out the respondent's suit for non-disclosure of a cause of action. The court found that a cause of action existed based on the Commissioner Land Registration's report confirming the existence of lease agreements registered as encumbrances on the mailo title. The court held that the allegations of fraud and injury to reversionary interest required investigation through evidence in the main suit and could not be determined summarily at the interlocutory stage.

Outcome

Application dismissed; main suit to proceed to hearing

Facts

The applicants sought to strike out the respondent's suit (Civil Suit No. 25 of 2018) concerning land comprised in Block 299 Plots 101 and 102. The respondent held mailo title (MRV 181 Folio 19) over the land. Two leasehold interests had been created on the land: one under Instrument No. 4053 (a 99-year lease to National Bank of India Limited expiring 31 January 2100, forming LRV 66 Folio 22) and another under Instrument No. 27001 (forming LRV 138 Folio 1). The applicants argued the respondent had no cause of action because the leasehold had not expired and the respondent's reversionary interest was not injured. The respondent alleged the leasehold agreements were fraudulently created. The Commissioner Land Registration confirmed both instruments existed as encumbrances on the mailo title.

Issues

  1. Whether the respondent's plaint discloses a cause of action against the applicants.
  2. Whether the applicants' reversionary interest in the mailo land has been injured by the alleged fraudulent creation of leasehold interests.
  3. Whether the suit constitutes an abuse of court process.

Orders

  • Preliminary objection overruled.
  • Costs in the cause.
  • Matter to be fixed for hearing at the earliest date possible.
  • Parties to file necessary documents.

Rules and key headnotes

Civil Procedure — Striking Out Pleadings — Disclosure of Cause of Action — Test for Striking Out
A plaint should not be struck out for failure to disclose a cause of action where the facts pleaded, if proved, would entitle the plaintiff to relief, and where material factual disputes require investigation through evidence at trial rather than summary determination at the interlocutory stage.
Land & Property — Mailo Land — Reversionary Interest — Injury to Reversionary Interest
A reversioner has a cause of action if the reversionary interest has been injured, and where allegations of fraudulent creation of encumbrances on mailo title are raised, such allegations must be investigated through evidence and cannot be dismissed summarily on the face of the pleadings alone.
Land & Property — Registration of Interests — Leasehold Encumbrances — Effect on Mailo Title
Where the Commissioner Land Registration confirms that lease agreements exist as registered encumbrances on a mailo certificate of title and form the basis for issuance of leasehold certificates, a cause of action exists for the mailo owner to challenge the validity of those encumbrances.

Legislation cited (10)

Cases cited (1)

  • Elena Nakabiri and 2 Others v Masaka District Growers Co-operative (Civil Suit No. 835 of 1983)

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