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LUCY M. SULLIVAN, ) UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. Pleintiff, ) DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY. vs ) UNITED STATES RADIUM ) CORPORATION, a corporar tion of the State of ) ACTION AT LAW. Delaware, ) Defendant, ) The plaintiff, Lucy M, Sullivan, residing at West Orenge, New Jersey, complaining of the defendant, says that: 1. The plaintiff is a citimen and resident of the Tom of Nest Orange, County of Essex and State of New Jorsey. 2. The defendant is a corporation of the State of Delaware and a eitizen thereof. 3. The defendant employed the plaintiff in the year 1917, in the ordinary course of its business, to work at its plant in Orange, New Jersey, and she continued to worte for the defendent for a period of about tio and a holf years painting the luninous dials on timepieces with liquid compounds consisting in part of one or more of the following substonces, redium, mesothorium end radium-X, and better known as radium paint. 4. The said defendent, by ita agents and servents, in- structed the plaintiff in the nannez and nothod of the use of the said con- pounda and in the manner and use and the handling of brushes for the purpose of painting the soid compounds on the disls of timepieces. The defendant, by its agente and servants, instructed the plaintiff and informed hor that the safe and proper method of shaping the small brushes used to apply the said liquid compounds was to form or fashion the hair of the said brushes by curling then in the mouth of the operator and particularly the nouth of the plaintiff and eurling then around her tongue. 5. It then and there beosmo and was the duty of the said defendant to use reasonable care to furnish a reasonably safo place for the plaintiff to work; and to use ressoneble care to furnish reasonably safe and