Re Intestate Estate of  KIRIYA.

 BILINDA v. UKKU.

 D. C., Kandy, 2,024 (Testamentary).

Administration-Civil Procedure Code, ss. 727, 740-Irregularity of procedure-Estoppel.

    Where a child of a deceased intestate applied under section 726 of the Civil Procedure Code for a judicial settlement of the account of the administratrix, and, the administratrix failing to show cause against the citation issued by the Court in terms of section 727, the Court directed her on 9th March, 1900, to account on or before 6th April, 1900, on the footing that the applicant was an heir of the deceased to the extent of an undivided one-third of his estate; and where, her account being tendered, the Court ordered on 11th May, 1900, that the allegations of the parties for and against such account be heard on the 21st August, and after some delays and postponements certain issues were agreed to as regards the inventory of property and final account, and the administratrix suggested a further issue regarding the estate of the interest of the applicant in the acquired property of the intestate; and where it was contended that the minor's status as an heir to one-thi