Ray Spears v. Ohio River Company

OPINION OF THE COURT

The plaintiff-appellant was injured on December 28, 1954, while employed as a deck hand on a vessel owned and operated by the defendant Ohio River Company. He brought an action against the defendant in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, for damages under the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 688, and for maintenance and cure under maritime law. The damage claim was tried to a jury which awarded him a verdict of $4,000 on June 27, 1956. Before his claim for maintenance and cure was disposed of by the District Court, to which it…