( 1 ) THIS judgment will also govern, the disposal of First Appeal No. 96 of 1960.

( 2 ) THESE are two appeals from a judgment of the Additional District Judge of balaghat giving to the plaintiff-respondent Pandit Sita Charan Dubey a decree for rs. 30,000/- as damages for injuries caused to him in a motor-car accident.

( 3 ) THE plaintiff, who on the date of the institution of the suit was about 76 years of age, has been practising as a lawyer since 1902. He became an advocate of the nagpur High Court in 1936 and practised in that Court till 1956 until the establishment of this Court at Jabalpur. He is now an advocate of this Court and an advocate of the Supreme Court also. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1952 to 1954. His case was that in March, 1956 he was required to go from nagpur to Baihar in Balaghat district; and that when he was doing the return journey on the morning of 1st April, 1956 in a jeep car, which had been placed at his disposal by a friend of his, he was injured in a collision between the jeep car and a Ford Touring car which was registered in the name of the defendant-appellant Gyarsilal and which was being driven by the respondent-Amersingh