Kuruppu Appuhamillage Premawathie Kuruppu vs Kuruppu Appuhamillage Navaratna – CA NO. 960/2000-2014

In the case between Kuruppu Appuhamillage Premawathie Kuruppu (Plaintiff-Appellant) and Kuruppu Appuhamillage Navaratna, Mohoppu Arachchillage Ananda Samarasinghe, and Wijesinghe Liyana Pathirennehelage Malani Wijesinghe (Defendant-Respondents), the court addressed the entitlement of the Plaintiff-Appellant to a declaration of title to the land described in the 3rd schedule to the plaint, and the eviction of the Defendants from that land. The findings established that the Plaintiff-Appellant failed to prove the case on a balance of probabilities and found no basis to interfere with the District Court’s dismissal of the action. This decision reaffirmed the principle that appellate intervention is unwarranted in the absence of legal or evidentiary error at trial. The ruling was grounded in t