(1.) The respondents have been served by publication. None appears.
(2.) FOR the reasons stated, the delay of 478 days in applying for restoration is condoned and the order dated 9 th November, 2011 of dismissal of the appeal in default is recalled and the appeal restored to its original position.
(3.) THE counsel for the appellant/plaintiff has been heard. Though the Trial Court record earlier requisitioned has been sent back but since the respondents/defendants before the Trial Court also were ex parte and further since the counsel for the appellant/plaintiff states that the copies of the Trial Court record have been filed along with the Memorandum of Appeal, need is not felt to await the re-requisitioning of the Trial Court record for hearing of the appeal. The appeal impugns the judgment and decree dated 22 nd July, 2002 of