{"id":132309,"date":"1953-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1953-09-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-perianna-pillai-vs-koppa-goundan-on-4-september-1953"},"modified":"2018-08-25T07:11:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T01:41:43","slug":"n-perianna-pillai-vs-koppa-goundan-on-4-september-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/n-perianna-pillai-vs-koppa-goundan-on-4-september-1953","title":{"rendered":"N. Perianna Pillai vs Koppa Goundan on 4 September, 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">N. Perianna Pillai vs Koppa Goundan on 4 September, 1953<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1954 Mad 804, (1954) ILLJ 468 Mad, (1954) IMLJ 190<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: K Nayudu<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: K Nayudu<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> Krishnaswami Nayudu, J.  <\/p>\n<p> 1. This is an appeal against the order of the Commissioner for Workmen&#8217;s Compensation awarding a sum of Rs. 720 payable to the respondent.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2. The respondent&#8217;s sort one Devi died as a result of an accident caused by a lorry belonging to the appellant dashing against the deceased. There is no dispute as to the death of the respondent&#8217;s son in the circumstances alleged in the petition before the Commissioner for Workmen&#8217;s Compensation and there is also no dispute as regards the minimum amount of Rs. 22-12-0 per mensem which has been fixed by the Commissioner as the wage which the deceased was earning at the time of his death, What is urged before me is that the father having filed this petition for compensation has not established that he is a &#8220;dependent&#8221; within the meaning of Section 2(1)(d), Workmen&#8217;s Compensation Act. It is no doubt true that the mere fact that he happens to be the father of the deceased would not entitle him to receive any compensation as a &#8220;dependent&#8221; as &#8220;dependent&#8221; is defined in Section 2(1)(d) of the Act as &#8220;including a parent other than a widowed mother if wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the workman at the time of his death.&#8221; It  is  therefore  necessary  for  an  applicant  who is the  father, when  he claims  compensation,  to establish  that he is  dependent  either  wholly  or<\/p>\n<p>in part on the earnings of his deceased son. There is an allegation in the petition that he is a dependent of the deceased workman which is denied in the counter statement filed by the appellant who says that the petitioner is an able bodied cooly and is earning his livelihood and does not depend on the deceased and that the deceased&#8217;s wage was simply an additional and extra source of income for him. In his deposition as P. W. 1, the respondent has not spoken as to how he is a dependent. Very rightly there has been no cross-examination of P. W. 1 on this point and 110 answer was elicited, since it was the duty of the respondent to establish that he was a dependent.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3. But the fact remains that though the appellant denied the averment in the petition that the<br \/>\nrespondent was a dependent he seems to have<br \/>\npaid, towards compensation, in response to a<br \/>\nclaim made by the respondent, and this is evident from the evidence of C. P. W. 1 who says<br \/>\nthat he paid Rs. 100 towards compensation on<br \/>\nthe day of the accident and that when the par<br \/>\nties came to claim the compensation, he paid<br \/>\nthem Rs. 100 as part payment, thereby indicating<br \/>\nhis liability to pay the balance of any amount<br \/>\nthat may be found as compensation. Prom the<br \/>\norder of the Commissioner it appears to me that<br \/>\nthe appellant has not argued this portion of the<br \/>\ncase apparently having conceded, as could be seen<br \/>\nfrom the evidence just cited, that the father was<br \/>\na dependent. On the facts of the case I hold<br \/>\nthat the father has not become disentitled from<br \/>\nclaiming compensation as it has been sufficiently<br \/>\nconceded that he is a dependent. I do not see<br \/>\nany error in the order of the Commissioner for<br \/>\nWorkmen&#8217;s Compensation. The appeal is dismiss<br \/>\ned with costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court N. Perianna Pillai vs Koppa Goundan on 4 September, 1953 Equivalent citations: AIR 1954 Mad 804, (1954) ILLJ 468 Mad, (1954) IMLJ 190 Author: K Nayudu Bench: K Nayudu JUDGMENT Krishnaswami Nayudu, J. 1. This is an appeal against the order of the Commissioner for Workmen&#8217;s Compensation awarding a sum of Rs. 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