Kalugala Darmasena de silwa Vs Kalugala Soma Gunaratne,nee de Silva – 345/97 F -2012

In the case between Kalugala Darmasena de Silva (Plaintiff-Appellant/Substituted by Kalugala Lalith Dammika De Silva) and Kalugala Soma Gunaratne (nee de Silva) with others including the 36th Defendant-Respondent, the allocation of shares in the corpus of an estate was at issue. The determination addressed whether the shares distributed to the Plaintiff-Appellant and the 36th Defendant-Respondent reflected their rightful entitlements according to the proved family pedigree and the Plaintiff-Appellant’s own submissions. It was held that the District Court’s interlocutory decree improperly awarded 12,120 out of 26,880 shares to the Plaintiff-Appellant instead of the correctly entitled 16,270 shares, and 4,486 shares to the 36th Defendant-Respondent instead of the justified 336 shares. The pr