Legal Opinion
Vella v. Ford Motor Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 15, 1975No. 73-1994PublishedCited by 182 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
We granted certiorari in this case limited to the question whether a shipowner’s duty to furnish an injured seaman maintenance and cure continues from the date
the seaman leaves the ship to the date when a medical diagnosis is made that the seaman’s injury was permanent immediately after his accident and therefore incurable. 1 419 U. S. 894 (1974).
Petitioner was a seaman aboard respondent’s Great Lakes vessel, S. S. Robert S. McNamara. He was discharged and left the ship on June 29, 1968. Thereafter he filed this suit in the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern…
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