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CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORPORATION v. SAMBULA

No. 25185.

405 F.2d 291 (1968)

CENTRAL GULF STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Basilio SAMBULA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

December 30, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Gordon Gooch, Houston, Tex., for appellant, Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Houston Tex., of counsel.

John N. Barnhart, Houston, Tex., for appellee, Mandell & Wright, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Before GOLDBERG and CLAYTON, Circuit Judges, and HANNAY, District Judge.

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

We begin with a crime on a street in Inchon, Korea. This Court's concern, however, is not with the criminal act itself, but with the medical consequences of that act and, more specifically, with the standard of care owed by a shipping company to a seaman injured while in its employ. Proceedings brought under the Jones Act1 in the district court resulted in a judgment for the seaman and against the shipping company...

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