( 1 ) THIS is an appeal by Messrs Kantilal and Brothers and the Vulcan Insurance Co. Ltd. against the award made by the Motor Accidents Claims Compensation Tribunal for Calcutta and 24-Parganas in favour of the respondents before us who were the petitioners before the Tribunal below.

( 2 ) THE facts giving rise to the claim of the petitioners before the Tribunal are required to be briefly stated. One Anurup Chandra Banerjee, a retired District and Sessions Judge of the State of Bihar aged about 72 years was knocked down by a private Ambassador car which was running at a great speed without giving any signal or sounding any horn. After the victim had been run over by the car, the driver did not slow down the speed but ran away without making any attempt for rendering medical aid to the injured. As a result thereof the victim died. The driver of the offending car was convicted and sentenced under Section 304-A of the I. P. C. The heirs and successors of the deceased were Ramarani Debi, the widow, Amiya Mukherjee, the daughter and Ashim Kumar Banerjee and Arun Banerjee, the sons. They filed an application for compensation in prescribed form pn the death of Anurup