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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
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