Alagallegedara Lalitha Jayanthi Alagalla Vs. Sextus Siriwaradane and others – CA CASE NO.762/99-1999

In the case between Alagailegedara Lalitha Jayanthi Alagaila (Plaintiff-Appellant) and Sextus Siriwaradane, Belgoyagedara Piyadasa, Nimal Gunaratne, and others (Defendants-Respondents), the court addressed whether the land described in the plaint and alleged to be a single land called “Kalahugahamula,” comprising eight lots, was sufficiently identified in the preliminary plan to permit partition. The court held that the Plaintiff failed to establish a clear correspondence between the plan on record and the land described in the plaint, and that the trial court’s decision to dismiss the action for insufficient identification of the corpus was justified. The principle reaffirmed is that partition actions require clear identification of the subject land and thorough investigation of title, ar