JUDGMENT :

1. Both the husband and wife lost their lives in a fatal accident. The legal heirs of the wife preferred O.P.(M.V.) No.610/2014, from which M.A.C.A. No.1326/2018 arose. The legal heirs of the husband filed O.P.(M.V.) No.591/2014, from which M.A.C.A. No.1431/2018 arose. The undisputed facts are as follows:

The husband and the wife were employed as Headmaster and Teacher, respectively, in a Higher Secondary School. Their salary is covered by salary certificates, produced as Ext.A14 in the case of the husband and Exts.A19 and A20 in the case of the wife. The essential ground/grievance, which was raised before this Court by the appellants, is with respect to application of split multiplier by the Tribunal. The husband and wife were aged 53 years and 48 years respectively, as on the date of the accident. Insofar as the husband is concerned, his actual salary was reckoned for a period of three more years from the date of death, whereafter Rs.6,000/-per month alone is reckoned for a period of nine years, that too reckoning the multiplier as 12, which also is wrong. According