JUDGMENT :

This appeal is preferred by the 2nd respondent/Insurance Company, challenging the order dated 27.03.2015 passed in M.V.O.P.No.301/2010 on the file of Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-XI Addl.District Judge, Krishna at Gudivada, wherein the Tribunal while partly allowing the petition, awarded a compensation of Rs.45,000/-with interest @ 7.5% p.a. from the date of petition, till the date of realisation to the petitioner/claimant for the death of a she-buffalo of the petitioner in a motor vehicle accident.

2. For the sake of convenience, the parties are arrayed as parties in the lower Court.

3. As seen from the record, originally the petitioners filed an application U/s.140 and 166 of Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity “the Act”) claiming compensation of Rs.90,000/-on account of the death of a she-buffalo of the petitioner, in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on 24.01.2006.

4. The facts show that on 03.01.2006 the petitioner purchased a she-buffalo for Rs.35,000/-. The same was brought grazing by the petitioner at Telephone Nagar on 24.01.2006 at about 02.30 p.m., when the driver of the 1st respondent’s offending vehicle bearing No.AP16 T 4759, drove the said lorry