Central Gulf Steamship Corporation v. Basilio Sambula

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

We begin with a crime on a street in Inchon, Korea. This Court’s concern, however, is not with the criminal act itself, but with the medical consequences of that act and, more specifically, with the standard of care owed by a shipping company to a seaman injured while in its employ. Proceedings brought under the Jones Act 1 in the district court resulted in a judgment for the seaman and against the shipping company in the amount of $32,500. We affirm.

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The district court’s statement of facts, garrisoned by the clearly erroneous rule, 2 is so decisive and apposite that…