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few experts and little settled knowledge. Some experts in 1920 con-
sidered anall quantities of redium such es the painters ingested
benoficial to the humen system. There is apperently no express state-
ment to the contrary.
It is tempting in the light of the knowledge of today and the
experience sinee 1980 to oreate the thought that the defendant must
have been negligent in some way. Today, industrial methods which the
defendent then employed would not be merely negligent but criminal.
But it should be carefully noted that this cese must be decided on
the facts as they existed in the light of the knowledge of 1917 to
1920. were safety measures such as scientifie ventilation, masks,
periodical medical exeminations, abolition of brush pointing, and
other now known precautions to be considored necessary as of 1920%
Actually, the defendant and its resesrch bureau feiled to enti-
cipate what later research and scientific investigation proved to
be e fact; nemely that the defendant's dial painters in 1980 were
exposed to the gravest of dangera in thoir occupation.
The fact is that this experience was not brought home to science
and medicine until a considerable number of cases such as that at
bar had been considered and then the knowledge came slowly, only to
be accepted as feot several yeara after the first necrosis cases
wore exposed.
Notwithstanding the Tact that the court is convinced that the
plaintiff is not entitled to the rolier he socks on the ground of
undisclosed fraud, the seriousness of the conseguences of the de-
cision makes it desirable to review briefly the New Jersey author-
ities defining the limits of the so-ealled doctrine of fraudulent
concealment.
The New Jersey statute of limitations which is applicable to
tort actions provides:
-*
* * all actions hereafter accruing for in-
juries to persons caused by the wrongrul act,
neglect or default of any a et * corporation or
corporation within this state, shall be comment-
ed and instituted within two years next efter
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