Stendze v. Boat Neptune, Inc.

ALDRICH, District Judge.

The question for decision is the amount of maintenance and cure a fisherman should be awarded when he has already received a jury verdict which included his lost earnings for the same period. 1

At the trial it was stipulated that the plaintiff was incapacitated from June 10 to August 10, following an injury received on board ship, and that during this period the vessel on which he had a site made five trips, on which he would have earned $1,057. The defend ant contends, quite properly in my opinion, that now to give him full maintenance for this same period would result…