Lord Atkin:-

Their Lordships do not think it necessary to hear Counsel for the respondent. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa varying a judgment given in the Supreme Court of Kenya by - the then Sir Jacob Barth, C. J. They varied the judgment by increasing the amount due. The claim of the plaintiff arises in these circumstances. It appears that before and up to 1911 a Mr. Siqueira carried on the business of a general store in Nairobi. In that year he died, leaving as his widow the present appellant, Mrs. Siqueira. Mrs. Siqueira does not seem to have taken an active part in the conduct of the business, and from 1931 it seems to have been conducted up to the year 1922 by her brother, defendant 2 Mr. Rodrigues under a power of attorney, granted by the lady. The plaintiff, Noronha, had been carrying on business before 1913 elsewhere, and in 1913 he joined this business and worked under Rodrigues, who happened to be his brother-in-law, Rodrigues being, as stated, the brother of Mrs. Siqueira, and the plaintiff being a cousin of the lady and of Rodrigues as well as his brother-in-law. He was employed continuously in the business from 1913 to the be