Dingiri Menika Te Al. V. Appuhamy

Present : Mr. Justice Wendt and Mr. Justice Middleton.

DINGIRI MENIKA et al. v. APPUHAMY.

D. C, Kandy, 2,313.

Kandyan ' Law-Intestate succession-Rights of diga father and uterine half-sisters of intestate's mother-Property inherited from the mother.

    Where a Kandyan, whose parents were married in diga, died intestate and without issue, leaving him surviving his father, his mother's mother, and two uterine half-sisters of his mother, and where the intestate's estate consisted exclusively of lands inherited by him from his mother, who had inherited them from her father,-

Held, that the intestate's father was sole heir to his estate, and that the uterine half-sisters of the intestate's mother were not entitled to any share thereof.

D. C, Kandy, 23,620 (1), followed.

    THE respondent Appuhamy was the administrator of the estate of his son Punchi Banda, who died intestate. Appuhamy was married to his wife, the mother of the deceased, in diga. The deceased left him surviving his father (the administrator), his mother's mother, Ukku Menika, and the appellants, who were his mother's uterine half-sisters, being issue of Ukku

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