I. Introduction:-
1. [i] National Insurance Company Ltd., the 2nd respondent before
the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal-cum- VIII Additional District Judge,
Chittoor [for short “MACT”], in M.V.O.P.No.47 of 2014, feeling aggrieved by
the Award and Decree dated 10.01.2017 passed therein, filed the present
appeal.
[ii] The 1st respondent herein is the claimant and the 2 nd and 3rd
respondents herein are the owner and driver of the vehicle bearing No.AP
03 AA 5224 [for short the ‘offending vehicle’] and the appellant herein is the
Insurance Company with which the offending vehicle was insured.
2. For the sake of convenience, parties will be herein after referred to as
the claimant and the respondents, with reference to their status before the
learned MACT, as and how they are arrayed in the impugned proceedings.
II. Case of the claimant in brief: