reference is important but quite baffling a question, as to how the damages should be quantified which the offender, who is held responsible for terminating ... loss of earning, has always been held to be entitled to get damages against the offender under the law of torts, but there
payment by the debtor. Interest is in the nature of legal damages, allowed for failure to pay money due, or for wrongful retention ... contents whether styled as "interest", "compensation", "damages", or "award".
This matter was examined by the House
reference is important but quite baffling a question, as to how the damages should be quantified which the offender, who is held responsible for terminating ... loss of earning, has always been held to be entitled to get damages against the offender under the law of torts, but there
claimed by them.
2. The plaintiff-petitioners have filed a suit for damages on account of the death of Jasvir Singh, husband of petitioner ... travelling. Another sum of Rs. 10,000/- was claimed on account of damages and repairs to the motorcycle and Rs. 30,000/- on account
these by getting a credit for them in mitigation of the damages that he must pay. They are the deferred returns ... such. Arrayed on the other side is the stricter view that damages are not to be punitive. That the claimant's actual financial loss
accident and if not, what is its effect?
5. To what damages, if any, are the plaintiffs entitled?
6. Was the deceased guilty of contributory ... injured person had a right to proceed against the assured for damages and in such a suit the insurers could not intervene nor could
Interest. (1) In
any proceedings for the recovery of any debt or
damages or in any proceedings in which a claim for
interest in respect ... debt or damages already
paid is made, the court may, if it thinks fit, allow
interest to the person entitled to the debt or damages
controversy is confined to only one point, as to the quantum of damages the appellants are entitled to. Negligence on the part of the respondent ... been questioned,
6. The right to recover damages for having wrongfully caused the death is wholly a statutory one. The basic rule to which
while fixing an amount of compensation to a victim of accident the damages have to be assessed separately as pecuniary and non pecuniary. Learned counsel ... Apex Court was pleased to observe that in the case of accident, damages have to be assessed separately as pecuniary and special and held
dislocation in his studies has also been taken into account and the damages assessed on this account run into five figures. Allowance has, however, been ... succeed.
10. This brings me then to the question of quantum of damages. As I have said earlier in this judgment, sympathies are naturally
