JUDGMENT :

Ratnam, J.—This appeal coming on for hearing on Wednesday, the 10th day of December, 1980 and this day upon perusing the petition of appeal, the orders of the lower Court, and the material papers in the case, and upon hearing the arguments of Mr. K.N. Balasubramaniam, Advocate for the Appellant, and Mr. E.H. B. David, Advocate for the Respondent, the Court made the following orders:

2. The appeal is directed against the order of the Additional Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation II, Madras, in W.C. Case No. 106 of 1977, on an application filed by the Respondent herein u/s 10 of the Workmen's Compensation Act (hereinafter referred to as the Act). The case of the Respondent was that his son Mr. G. Karunanidhi was a workman employed in the factory of the Appellant herein on a monthly wage of Rs. 150/- and that on 28.6.1977, G. Karunanidhi received injuries in the course of an accident arising out of and in the course of his employment, which later resulted in his death on the same day. The injury, according to the Respondent, was sustained by his son while he fell down from the ceiling in the said tube during the course of his employment. Claiming that the Respondent is a