Perera v. Fernando – sllr 1999 volume 3 page 259

In PERERA v. FERNANDO, involving several parties in a partition dispute including Perera and Fernando, the court addressed whether adverse possession is interrupted by the filing of a partition action, and the applicable date for assessing the 10-year prescriptive period relevant to a prescriptive title claim. The findings established that the filing of the partition action suspends the running of prescription and clarified the computation period in cases where parties are added at a later stage. Key legal precedents such as Chinnathamby v. Shanmugam, Fernando v. Wijesooriya, and Lucihamy v. Hamidu formed the foundation for the legal analysis. The appellate court set aside portions of the lower court’s judgment, directed exclusion of lot 1 from partition in favor of the 29th defendant, and