JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988, against the judgment and decree dated 09.01.2019 made in M.C.O.P.No.1965 of 2016 on the file of the Special District Court, (II, Additional District Judge), FAC, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Salem.)

1. This Civil Miscellaneous Appeal has been filed against the judgment and decree dated 09.01.2019 made in M.C.O.P.No.1965 of 2016 on the file of the Special District Court, (II, Additional District Judge), FAC, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Salem.

2. The respondents 1 to 3/claimants are the father, step mother and step sister of the deceased, who filed M.C.O.P.No.1965 of 2016, showing the appellants herein/wife and daughter of the deceased as respondents 3 & 4, on the file of the Special District Court, (II, Additional District Judge), FAC, Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal, Salem, claiming a sum of Rs.25,00,000/- as compensation for the death of one Jayakumar, who died in the accident that took place on 16.05.2016.

3. The Tribunal considering the pleadings, oral and documentary e