( 1 ) THIS appeal is instituted under Sec. HOD of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, by original respondent No. 1, the General Manager, Karnataka State road Transport Corporation, Bangalore, and is directed against the judgment and award dated 30-1-1976 passed in Mis. (MVC) NO. 54 of 72 by the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Dharwar.

( 2 ) THE original petitionerkwaja Hussain Shaiksab Bellaryhas filed cross objections raising the plea 'that the Tribunal was not justified in deducting Rs. 7,000, he received as exgratia payment from ESSO Company and has further submitted that the loss of future income calculated by the Tribunal is unreasonably low.

( 3 ) THE facts leading up to the present appeal and cross-objections are these: kwaja Hussain Shaiksab Bellary instituted an, application for compensation under Sec. 110a of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939, for the personal injuries sustained by him as a result of the Motor accident that occurred on 25-3-1973 on Gadag-Hubli Road, 5 miles away from Hubli. According to him he was driving the tanker belonging to the ESSO Company from gadag towards Hubli when the driver of a K. S. R. T. C. bus coming from Hubli in a rash and negligent m