RUBIN, District Judge:
This motion for summary judgment puts the question: Is a seaman who usually provides his own meals even while working aboard his ship and who usually returns to his home ashore at night entitled to be paid maintenance during a period of disability resulting from an injury received in the service of his vessel? The answer is neither self-evident nor is it provided clearly by the school of decisions concerning seamen's rights. Yet on principle...
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