Baun v. Hudson

FOLTA, District Judge.

Libelant, a seaman, seeks maintenance for the period of disability resulting from the aggravation of an old back injury while employed on respondent’s fishing vessel. Although the injury is apparently permanent, maintenance may be alloVed only for such period of time after the voyage ended as an improvement in his condition may reasonably be expected from nursing, care and medical treatment, 'Calmar S.S. Corp. v. Taylor, 303 U.S. 525, 58 S.Ct. 651, 82 L.Ed. 993, and recovery is sought in this case only to the end of the period of convalescence following libelant’s…