LETCHEMANAN v. CHRISTIAN.

LETCHEMANAN v. CHRISTIAN.

D. C., Galle, 3,533,

Proctor and client-Proctor giving proxy to another proctor to appear in the case-Rights of proctor-Civil Procedure Code, s. 27, form 7.

No proctor is entitled to appear for a client unless he has a proxy signed by such client; and there cannot be more than one proctor at the same time on the record.

Nor can one proctor employ another proctor to appear for him and conduct a case,

A proxy to that effect should not be received in Court.

If the proctor appointed by a client does not wish to conduct the case himself, he is at liberty to employ an advocate.

The form of proxy No. 7 given under section 27 of the Civil Procedure Code, so far as it refers to one proctor appointing another proctor in a case, is not justified by that section of the Code.

ACTION on a promissory note against two defendants who were the makers of it. The second defendant engaged Mr. N. D. Abeyesingha as his proctor and granted him a proxy dated 18th April 1895, on the strength of which he appeared for him, before the District Court on the 22nd April of that year. Judgment was entered up against first defendant on the sa

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