Present : Mr. Justice Wood Renton.

NICHOLAS v. WALKER, SONS' & CO.

Ex parte ERNEST RICHARD NICHOLAS, next friend of the
minor plaintiff.

C. R., Colombo, 3,011.

Minor-Action by next friend-Receipt by next friend of money due under decree-Inherent power of Court to order next friend to bring money into Court-Civil Procedure Code, s. 499.

    A minor becomes a ward of Court by being made a party to a suit; and the Court in which the action is instituted has power, in appropriate circumstances, apart from any provisions of the Code, to take such steps as it may deem necessary for the purpose of seeing that any money recovered by the next friend on behalf of the minor is actually applied for the minor's benefit.

    APPEAL by the next friend of the minor plaintiff from an order of the Commissioner (J. S. Drieberg, Esq.) directing him to bring into Court the money received by him from the defendants in satisfaction of the decree in favour of the minor. The facts are fully set out in the following order of the Commissioner (February 21, 1907).

    " This is an action by a next friend on behalf of a minor. Judgment was obtained for Rs.295 and