Pinchahevage Dharmadasa and others Vs. Wijesekara Arachchige Willie and others – CA PHC/275/2003-2018

In the case between Pinchahevage Dharmadasa, Mirissalankage Bandula, Hewa Angappulige Dayananda, Kirindagoda Gamage Jayalal and others (Petitioner-Appellants) and Wijesekara Arachchige Willie, Mahamarakkala Kurukulasuriya Patabandige Hemal Priyanath Perera, Hiran Chaminda Kurukulasuriya and others (Respondent-Respondents), the court addressed whether orders of the Primary Court and Provincial High Court, which denied reconsideration of a land possession dispute based on an earlier case, were correct. The main issue concerned whether the disputed property, “lot 108,” was the same as the land considered in the prior decision and whether the Respondents had obtained lawful possession thereof. It was held that the earlier case involved a separate parcel (paddy land of nearly four acres) and th