IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) MONDAY, THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Second Appeal No.1067 of 1999 Between: Badavula Venkatarayappa. ..... Appellant AND 1 Gowni Gangappa (died) and 3 others. .....Respondents Counsel for the Appellant: Sri O.Manohar Reddy Counsel for Respondent Nos.1 and 2: --- Counsel for Respondent Nos.3 and 4: Mr.C.Pattabhirama Rao The Court made the following : Judgment: In this Second Appeal, as respondent No.2 died, the appeal was dismissed qua the said respondent, by order of this Court, on 26-07-2002. Through letter, dated 07-06-2001, the learned Counsel for respondent Nos.3 and 4 informed the learned Counsel for the appellant, that respondent No.4- P.Chinna Venkatarayappa died on 29-04-2001 leaving behind his only daughter Smt.Yarla Naga Lakshamma, to enable the learned Counsel to take appropriate steps. Similarly, through letter, dated 15-12-2003, the learned Counsel for respondent No.3, while informing the learned Counsel for the appellant that respondent No.3 died on 28-11-2003, gave the details of his legal representatives to enable the learned Counsel to take appropriate steps. It has come out, at the hearing, that since then, no steps were taken on behalf of the appellant to bring the legal representatives of respondent Nos.3 and 4 on record. The learned Counsel for respondent Nos.3 and 4 placed before the Court, the office copies of the abovementioned letters, which are taken on record. At the hearing, the learned Counsel for the appellant submitted that recently, he has filed an application for bringing the legal representatives of respondent Nos.3 and 4 on record. But, he has not furnished the numbers and details of the applications. In view of the fact that no steps have been taken for nearly nine (9) years in case of one respondent and seven (7) years in the other, the Second Appeal stood abated. Accordingly, the Second Appeal is dismissed as abated. ___________________________ (C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J) 15th February, 2010 lur