TUNKS, Chief Justice.
This is a case wherein a seaman, the appellee, Rudolph Gayton, sued his employer, the appellant, Union Carbide Corporation, for damages for personal injury he sustained when he fell while working on his employer's ship, the SS R. E. Wilson. The seaman also sued for maintenance allegedly due him, but not paid for or provided, during the time he was undergoing curative treatment for such injury.
In response to special issues the jury found...
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