CLARA FERNANDO v. ROSA FERNANDO

Present : Sir C. P. Layard, Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice Grenier.

CLARA FERNANDO v. ROSA FERNANDO.

D. C., Negombo, 603.

Application for discovery of property by an administrator-Procedure- Citation-Security-Civil Procedure Code, chapter LIV.

The procedure to be adopted in an application by an administrator for discovery of property belonging to the intestate's estate under chapter LIV. of the Civil Procedure Code indicated.

APPEAL from an order of the District Judge directing the appellants to deliver certain property to the respondent as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband.

H. J. C. Pereira and H. A. Jayewardene, for appellant.

Dornhorst, K. C, and E. W. Jayewardene, for respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

12th August, 1903. LAYARD C. J.-

In this case the Court seems to have misunderstood the procedure laid down in chapter LIV. of the Civil Procedure Code. The respondent is the administratrix of the intestate husband's estate. The appellants are persons in whose possession the administratrix alleges was certain property which had belonged to the intestate and which the respondent claims as his legal personal re

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