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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY : ETHELWYNNE METZ, (nee Peer), and EDWARD METZ, her husband, : Plaintiffs : Action at Law -VS- : ORDER UNITED STATES RADIUM CORPORA- : TION, a corporation of the State of Delaware, : Defendant. : : The plaintiffs having filed a com- plaint herein, wherein they allege that said female plaintiff was employed by the defendant between March lst, 1916, and December 15th, 1918, in the plant of the defendant, which was engaged in the distribution of radium and radium products and the manufacture and distribution of radium and other luminous materials, which materials and products plaintiffs allege were deleterious to human heal th if a person were exposed thereto; and further alleging that the defendant failed in its duty to afford said female plaintiff a reason- ably safe place to work, and reasonably safe tools and materials to work with, and that the said defendant negli- gently failed to warn the female plaintiff of the dangers of working with, or in proximity to, said materials, and in negligently directing the said female plaintiff to use certain methods in the mixing and application of said materials in the course of her employment, and that by reason thereof the said female plaintiff became exposed to the said dangerous materials and her body became impregnated with the same, whereby she became affected with an industrial disease which has recently become known as radium poisoning,