Hettiarachchilage Piyadasa vs. Hettiarachchilage Piyaseeli & Others – SC APPEAL 118/2014-2016

Brief
In the case between Hettiarachchilage Piyadasa (petitioner/respondent) and the substituted parties including Hettiarachchilage Piyaseeli, Hettiarachchilage Nandawathie, and Hettiarachchilage Piyawathie, the court addressed the issue of whether the land corpus as identified in conflicting survey plans had been properly established, and the effect of evidentiary error arising from documents marked “subject to proof” that were not retained in the court record nor available for judicial consideration. It was held that decisions of the District Court and High Court, which were based on such inadmissible evidence, constituted a misdirection. Both judgments were set aside and the case was remitted for a trial de novo, reaffirming the principle that only duly admitted and recorded evidence c