B. P. JEEVAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THESE four Civil Miscellaneous Appeals are preferred by the Insurance Company questioning the award of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal. The contention of Mr. I. A Naidu is that on the findings recorded by the Tribunal, the Insurance Company could not have been made liable for paying the compensation awarded. IT is necessary to state a few facts:

( 2 ) ON 14-12-1978, the petitioner in O. P. No. 236/1978 (First respondent in C. M. A 313/80) was driving the lorry, APQ 3547 loaded with Gammaxine bags. He was transporting them from Doopadu railway Station, to Nellore. While going on the Bombay-Nellore High Road, near Bedvel town, he met a party of music artists. They were stranded for want for transport. At their entreaty, the lorry and, accordingly, they got into the lorry. When the lorry reached K. M. 61 near Kona Samudran Cross- road, within dashed against a palmyra tree, and got damaged. The inmates, including the driver and the three music artists who got into the lorry near Badvel town, were also injured. Claims were laid by the driver, as well as the said three Artists for compensation, both against the owner of the vehicle and the insurance Company

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