A. R. BAKSHI, P. N. BHAGWATI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is a Letters Patent Appeal against the decision in First Appeal No. 1079 of 1960 which was a First Appeal preferred in this Court against the order of the Commissioner for Workmens Compensation in Workmen Compensation Application No. 87 of 1958 which arose on the following facts. The applicant in that matter was the widow of one Chandulal Hemchand who was an employee of the New Rajpur Mills Company Limited Ahmedabad the present respondent and who died on 12th February 1958 when he was on work in the stamping department of the mills. On that day Chandulal felt giddy and became unconscious and subsequently died in the department. The monthly wages of Chandulal were between Rs. 80/and Rs. 100/and his widow the original applicant as the dependant of the deceased claimed Rs. 3 0 as compensation on account of the death of her deceased husband having occurred as a result of a personal injury received by him by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment. The learned Commissioner for Workmens Compensation Ahmedabad by his order dated 23rd August 1960 awarded Rs. 3 0 as compensation. The employer the New Rajpur Mills Company Limited

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