V. RAJAGOPALA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THIS application is filed to bring the legal representatives of the sole deceased respondent on record. In the affidavit filed in support of the petition it was stated that the sole respondent died on 7-4-1996 leaving behind the respondents named in the affidavit. It was further stated that the above information as to the demise of the sole respondent was brought to the notice of the petitioner only recently. However, learned Counsel for the respondent, who was engaged pending the appeal prior to the demise of the respondent, submitted that the information regarding the demise of the sole respondent was already conveyed to the erstwhile Counsel of the petitioner by a letter sent by registered post to him. Learned Counsel for the petitioner has now fairly conceded before me that a letter was addressed to the Counsel for the petitioner on 10-5-1996 informing the demise of the sole respondent.

( 2 ) THE petitioner is the plaintiff in OS No. 75/84 on the file of the II Additional District Munsif, Kurnool, which was decreed on 14-2-1990. Aggrieved by the said judgment and decree, the deceased respondent filedas. No. 42/90 on the file of the II Additional Dis

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