The above referred to National Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Diwaliben 1982 ACJ (Supp) 610 (Gujarat), is distinguishable. The subject-matter of the appeal therein by the insurance company was on the quantum of compensation itself since the insurance company thereof in its appeal sought to be fully exonerated from its liability.
Then Rajasthan State Road Transport Corpn. v. Kiran Lata 1993 ACJ 130 (Rajasthan), dealing with the scope of Order 41, Rule 33, Civil Procedure Code, has no application to the present case where the cross-objection filed itself is not maintainable as stated above.
3. But, the learned Counsel for the appellant argues that in the above-said case before the Supreme Court, the award amount itself was Rs. 42,000/-, that is, below the above-said sum of Rs. 50,000/- and that is why there is no scope for apportionment in that case. We agree with this contention of the learned Counsel for the appellant and we hold that the insurance company could be made liable only for a sum of Rs. 50.000/- out of the above-said total award amount of Rs. 76,800/-. The learned Counsel for the owner, 7th respondent, could not argue anything contra to the above-said argument of the learned Counsel for the appellant. No other point was urged by the learned Counsel for the appellant.