Smt Muniyamma v. Sri Muniya
Case brief
What is this about?
Dismissal for non-prosecution of a second appeal (NC: 2025:KHC:52306). Regular Second Appeal No. 2004 of 2018, filed under Sec.100 CPC in the High Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru, coming on for orders and decided on 10 December 2025 by Hon'ble Dr. Justice K.Manmadha Rao. Procedural chain: decree dated 02.01.2015 in OS.No.166/2012 (Senior Civil Judge and JMFC, Channapatna); first appeal RA.No.07/2015 dismissed 06.07.2018 by the III Addl. District and Sessions Judge, Ramanagara; this RSA. After counsel Sri. R.B.Sadasivappa's retirement memo (filed 02.06.2025 with signatures of all appellants) was accepted, appellants 1-7 and 9-11 remained unrepresented and absent and did not engage fresh counsel; the appeal was therefore dismissed for non-prosecution. Relevant to: effect of a retiring counsel's memo, unrepresented litigants in second appeals, Section 100 CPC practice. Contains no merits decision, cites no precedent, and has limited citation value beyond the non-prosecution outcome.