1. Applicant is the appellant. This an appeal against the order passed by the learned Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation II, Madras, in W.C. Case No. 75 of 1979 filed by the appellant, granting a compensation of Rs. 5,880/- to the appellant to be paid by the opposite party viz., the respondent herein, for the injury sustained by the appellant during and in the course of his employment under the respondent herein.

2. The appellant herein filed the application claiming compensation alleging that previously he was working in the State Transport Department since 1969, that his services were taken over by the Thanthai Periyar Transport Corporation in the year 1976, that he was employed as a conductor in the Thanthai Periyar Transport Corporation and was working in the Madras Branch, that during 1978 he was drawing a monthly salary of Rs. 430/-, that on 11th June 1978 he was on duty in Bus route No. 174 and he was proceeding as a conductor in the bus bearing Registration No. TMN 7530 from Madras to Tirukoilur, that at about 8.30 a.m., the bus capsized and overturned at Vedanarayanapuram near a distillery factory when the driver tried to negotiate and to avoid dashi