Pattiyage Leelawathie Gomes vs Kotagoda Mudiyanselage Seneviratne Yatigammana – SC APPEAL 54/19-2024

In the case between Pattiyage Leelawathie Gomes (plaintiff-appellant, with substituted plaintiff-respondents as administrators of her deceased husband’s estate) and Kotagoda Mudiyanselage Seneviratne Yatigammana, Kotagoda Mudiyanselage Swarnamali Yatigammana, and Kotagoda Mudiyanselage Yashodara Srima Kumari Yatigammana (defendants-appellants/respondents), the central issues addressed included the proper legal foundation for the action following the termination of a license to occupy, the legitimacy of suing in a representative capacity with limited letters of administration, and the sufficiency of alleged prescriptive title by the defendants. It was determined that the action was correctly instituted on the basis of the termination of a license, rather than as a strict rei vindicatio requ