(1.) HEARD both the counsel.
(2.) SINCE the issue involved in all these appeals and the accident in question is one and the same, they are being disposed of by this common judgment.
(3.) ALL these appeals are filed against the orders dated 16-3-1999 passed by the Motor vehicle Accidents Claims Tribunal, Guntur in m. V. O. P. Nos. 520, 521, 522, 523 and 524 of 1996 respectively. The claimants are the appellants.