Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Aderhold

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a $40,203-judgment, in favor of the appellee against appellant, of. the 61st District Court of Harris County, entered in part upon, a jury’s answers to special issues and in part from independent findings of the court itself, recited to have (been “from the undisputed evidence”; $35,807 of such total being for damages, under Section 688, Title 46 U.S.C.A., Jones Act, suffered 'by the appellee as a result of injuries sustained by him while a member of the crew of appellant’s SS “Sacona”, and the remaining $4,396 for 1098 days, as “maintenance and cure”,…