Scott v. Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case graphically depicts one man’s courageous fight for control of his mental and physical faculties after suffering a disabling brain injury which paralyzed his speech process as well as his left arm and leg, already badly broken in the accident. By determined and continuous application of modern methods of rehabilitation under supervision, this plaintiff seaman has delivered himself from the life of a gibbering, hopeless, helpless cripple to that of a functional human being, able to speak, to walk, to work, and even to contain himself after months of…