SESMA LEBBE MARIKAR v. MANATCHY UMMA et al.

 

Present: The Hon.  Sir Joseph T. Hutchinson, Chief Justice,

and Mr. Justice Wood Renton.

 

SESMA LEBBE MARIKAR v. MANATCHY UMMA et al.

 

D. C., Colombo (Testamentary), 2,925.

 

    Administration-Insolvency of applicant-Disqualification-English Law- Civil Procedure Code, ss. 523 and 544.

 

An undischarged bankrupt is not ipso jure disqualified for the office of administrator of a deceased person's estate under the Civil Procedure   Code.

 

APPEAL from an order of the District Judge of Colombo granting  letters of administration of the estate of Packeer Pulle Mustapha Natchia to the respondent Siddi Lebbe Marikar Sesma Lebbe  Marikar.      The   facts   sufficiently   appear  in  the   judgments.

 

F. M. de saram, for the third respondent, appellant.

 

Bawa, for the petitioner, respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

June 29, 1908.   HUTCHINSON C.J.-

 

This is an appeal from an order made on February 13, 1908, granting letters of administration of the estate of Packeer Pulle Mustapha Natchia to the respondent Siddi Lebbe Marikar Sesma Lebbe Marikar.
 

The respondent is the only son of the decea

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