RAMAMURTI, J. :- This appeal has been preferred against the decision of the Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal (hereinafter called 'the Tribunal') against its decision awarding a sum of Rs. 25,000/- as compensation payable to one Sayari Bai, the respondent in this appeal and the claimant before the Tribunal in M. O. P. 3 of 1968 on its file. Sayari Bai's only son Rupa alias Rupraj, aged about 12 years, met with his death as a result of a bus accident in the Bazar Road, Ambattur, opposite to the State Bank of India on 18-10-1967 at about 3-45 p.m. M. A. Rahim, the first respondent in the petition, is the owner of the Bus No. MSW 2471 involved in the fatal accident and Madras Motor and General Insurance Co., is the 2nd respondent. Sayari Bai, the mother of the unfortunate boy, made the claim for compensation under Section 110-A of the Motor Vehicles Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act). She claimed compensation of Rupees 70,000/- and Rs. 5,000/- for expenses, pain and suffering. The Tribunal awarded a sum of Rs. 25,000/-. In support of her case, the father of the boy and one Doraiswami Iyengar, a retired teacher of the school, were examined as witnesses, while on the other