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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY ANITA J. BURRICELLI, : Plaintiff, se : ACTION AT LAW UNITED STATES RADIUM : COMPLAINT CORPORATION, a corpora- tion of the State of de Delaware, e Defendant, se The plaintiff, ANITA J. BURRICELLI, residing at 34 Tompkins Street, in the municipality of West Orange, Essex County, says that:- --FIRST COUNT- 1. The plaintiff is a resident and citizen of the State of New Jersey. 2. The defendant is a corporation of the State of Delaware. 3. The amount in controversy herein exceeds the sum of $3,000.00, exclusive of interest and costs. 4. Prior to, during, and for many years after 1917 the defendant was engaged in the manufacture and sale of various commodities rendered luminous by the application of radioactive substances, particularly the dials and hands of watches and clocks. 5. The defendant maintained a plant at Orange, New Jersey, where substances containing radioactive materials were prepared and applied to the commodities hereinabove mentioned, the radioactive materials used being radium, mesothorium and thorium-Xe 6. Each of these last mentioned materials whether used alone or in any combination, is inherently potent and inherently highly dangerous and injurious to human health and human tissues when brought into close proximity with the human body or when introduced therein, and was in fact highly dangerous and injurious as used by the defendants employed in carrying on the operations hereinabove mentioned. 7. The defendant employed the plaintiff in the years 1917