Advocates:
['m/s m b gopalan', '', 'N VIJAYARAGHAVAN', 'M B RAGHAVAN']

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 01.02.2013

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.MANIKUMAR

C.M.A.No.3400 of 2012

M.P.No.1 of 2012

The United India Insurance Co. Ltd.,

Branch Office at No.3,

Giriram Buildings, Main Road,

Gobichettipalayam.

... Appellant/3^rd Respondent

vs.

1.V.Giriprasath 1^st Respondent/Petitioner

2.A.Muthukumar

3.S.K.M.Egg Products Export (India) Ltd.,

Erode to Karur Main Road,

Cholangapalayam,

Pasur Post, Erode 638 154.

... Respondents 2 & 3/

Respondents 1 & 2

Civil Miscellaneous Appeal filed under Section 173 Motor Vehicles

Act, 1988 against the Judgment and decree, dated 25.05.2012, made in

M.C.O.P.No.86 of 2011, on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims

Tribunal, (Chief Judicial Magistrate Court), Erode.

For Appellant

: Mr.M.B.Gopalan

For 1^st respondent : Mr.R.Nalliyappan

J U D G M E N T

Being aggrieved by the award, dated 25.05.2012, made in

M.C.O.P.No.86 of 2011, on the file of the Motor Accidents Claims

Tribunal, (Chief Judicial Magistrate Court), Erode, the present

appeal has been filed.

2.

Short facts leading to the appeal are as fol