JUDGMENT :

Heard the arguments of Sri P. Durga Prasad, learned counsel for the appellants/claimants and Smt. T.V. Sridevi, learned counsel for the respondent No.2/Insurance Company.

2. This appeal directed by the appellants/claimants challenging the Order and Decree dated 19.07.2013 passed in M.V.O.P.No.126 of 2011 by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal-cum-VI Additional District Judge, East Godavari District at Kakinada (hereinafter referred to "Tribunal").

3. Parties are referred to as they were arrayed in the proceedings before the learned Tribunal, for the sake of convenience.

4. The claimants filed petition under Section 166 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for brevity "the Act") claiming compensation of Rs.4,00,000/- for the death of one P. Ganesh (hereinafter referred to "deceased") in a motor accident occurred on 26.03.2010.

5. The case of the claimants is that the 1st claimant is the wife; claimant Nos.2 to 4 are minor children and 5th claimant is the father of the deceased; the deceased was aged around 32 years and doing fish culture and earning a sum of Rs.8,000/- per month; on 26.03.2010 the deceased along with co-workers D. Dharma Rao and A. Rambabu boarded an auto bearing