Dingiri Menika Et Al V. Appuhamy

Re Estate of PUNCHIRALA, Deceased.

D. C., Kandy, 1,839 (Testamentary ).

DINGIRI MENIKA et al., Petitioners,

v.

APPUHAMY, Respondent.

Kandyan Law-Succession to acquired property of intestate-Uterine half-brother of intestate-Bight of uterine half-sisters, married in diga, to succeed jointly with their half-brother.

Per curiam (with some hesitation), where a Kandyan died intestate and without issue the lands acquired by him devolve on his uterine half-brother, to the exclusion of his uterine half-sisters who had married in diga.

THE petitioners alleged in their petition that the respondent, as administrator of the estate of the deceased Punchirala, filed a final account on the footing that he was the sole heir of the intestate, ignoring the rights of the first and second petitioners as the uterine sisters of the intestate, and the third and fourth petitioners as the children of another of his uterine sisters. They prayed that the respondent be compelled to make a judicial settlement upon the footing that the petitioners are entitled to three-fourth shares, and the respondent to the remaining one-fourth share.

The District Judge (M

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