Union Carbide Corporation v. Gayton

TUNKS, Chief Justice.

This is a case wherein a seaman, the ap-pellee, Rudolph Gayton, sued his employer, the appellant, Union Carbide Corporation, for damages for personal injury he sustained when he fell while working on his employer’s ship, the SS R. E. Wilson. The seaman also sued for maintenance allegedly due him, but not paid for or provided, during the time he was undergoing curative treatment for such injury.

In response to special issues the jury found that on September 1, 1967, Gayton fell on the deck of the ship and that he sustained an injury when he did so. It also found that the…