Leticia Ameliana Braganza v. Joao Sebastiao Zezito Da Purificacao Pires Lobo Also Known as Zezito Lobo
Case brief
What is this about?
Bombay High Court at Goa; neutral citation 2025:BHC-GOA:108; First Appeal No. 87 of 2024; decided 27th January, 2025 by Valmiki Menezes, J. Appellant Leticia Ameliana Braganza (counsel Ms. S. Pednekar) versus respondent Joao Sebastiao Zezito Da Purificacao Pires Lobo, also known as Zezito Lobo (counsel Mr Vibhav Amonkar). Appeal was directed against judgment and decree dated 12.03.2024 granting divorce. Respondent reported expired on 05.01.2025 with death certificate produced; court found nothing survived in the appeal and dismissed it as infructuous.
What did the court decide?
Since the appeal is against a judgment and decree granting divorce and the respondent has died, nothing survives in the First Appeal. ¶15