Kariyawasam Arachchige Priyantha Dayarathna vs. Kadinappuliradage Nandapala – SC APPEAL NO 88/2015-2025

In the case between the Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellants (a group of individuals, including Gamini, Ananda, Chitra, and others) and the Defendant-Respondent-Respondents (including parties such as Gunawardene, Lalith, and Amarasinghe), the court addressed whether the petition of appeal, signed by the Plaintiff-Appellants themselves rather than their registered attorney, complied with Sections 27(2) and 755(3) of the Civil Procedure Code. The proceedings arose after the District Court dismissed the partition action due to failure to establish the identity of the corpus, and the Provincial High Court subsequently dismissed the appeal on a preliminary objection regarding the improper signing of the petition of appeal. The Supreme Court examined the statutory requirements for the signing of appea