Court Opinion

ID: 9636208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 14:19:36.16844+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:09:42.905188
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MORTON, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
As to maintenance and cure I think it devolved upon the plaintiff to request it. There was no claim that he was mentally incapacitated or unable to look out for himself when the trawler readied port. If he wanted to be cared for and cured at the expense of the vessel, he should have said so and gone to the Marine Hospital. I do not think it devolved upon the vessel to take the initiative by offering to send him to the hospital. He evidently preferred to go home and be cared for there. Of course, he was quite free to do so; but it does not seem to me that the vessel was obligated to pay the bills which he so contracted.