Jose A. Perez, Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee v. Suwanee Steamship Co., and Orion Shipping & Trading Co., Inc., Defendants-Appellees-Appellants

Even though we assume that, because of the plaintiff’s obviously disturbed mental state, the master should have done more than merely to take away his glasses and send him below, Reek v. Pacifie-Atlantic S.S. Co., 2 Cir., 180 F.2d 866, there is no evidence that except for the cut of his wrist he suffered any injury from this neglect. The cut was indeed an injury for which the ship is liable: but of it Judge Walsh said that “The damage to the wrist was inconsequential. As far as I can see, that has left no impairment whatever. If there had been damage to the wrist, we might have had a more…