THE ORITANI

No. 111 of 1925.

40 F.2d 522 (1929)

THE ORITANI.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 11, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bailey & Single, of New York City, and Otto Wolff, Jr., and Lewis, Adler & Laws, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

H. H. Yocum, of Biddle, Paul, Dawson & Yocum, of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

On the night of April 21, 1925, at 11:45 o'clock, the steamship Oritani, leaving the harbor of Port Morant, Jamaica, with a cargo of bananas bound for Philadelphia, stranded upon a coral reef near the entrance of the harbor. She remained fast on the reef until 4:45 in the afternoon of the following day, at which time she was pulled off by a wrecking tug and then proceeded under her own power to Kingston, where she was laid up several days...

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