Government Agent, Western Province V. Cooray

 

Present : Mr. Justice Wood Renton and Mr. Justice Grenier.

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G. A., W. P., v. COORAY et al.

 

D. C., Colombo, 2,235.

 

Land acquisition proceedings-Claim for damages  and  compensation  for improvements-Lessees-Intervention-Ordinance No. 3 of 1876.

 

Where in a land acquisition case the lessees of two of the claim ants were       allowed to intervene and  to claim compensation for improvements effected by them and damages consequent on the determination of the lease before the            expiration of the stipulated period-

 

Held, that the intervention was wrongly allowed, and that it was not competent for the lessees to claim compensation or damages in these proceedings.

 

 

APPEAL   from  a   judgment   of   the   District   Judge   of   Colombo. The facts  sufficiently  appear in the judgment  of Grenier  A. J.

 

Van Langenberg, for the claimants, appellants.

 

F. M. de Saram, for the respondents.

Cur. adv. vult.

July 7, 1908.    GRENIER A.J.-

 

This was a land acquisition case, on which has been grafted an action for compensation in respect of certain improvements alleged to have been m

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