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OCR Page 1 of 5NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT
EXSEX COUNTY.
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GRACE FRYER,
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Plaintiff,
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Action-At-Law
vs
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COMPLAINT.
UNITED STATES RADIUM
CORPORATION, a corpora-
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tion of the State of
Deleware,
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Defendant.
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Plaintiff, Grace Fryer, residing in the City of Orange, County
of Exsex and State of New Jersey complaining says that:
FIRST COUNT.
1. From April 1,1917 to January 1,1921, the defendant United
States Radium Corporation, was a corporation engaged in the extraction
and manufacture of radioactive substances and the manufacture of
products of the said radioactive substances for commercial purposes,
having its principal place of business at the corner of Alden and High
Streets in the City of Orange, County of Essex and State of New Jer-
sey.
2. Said radioactive substances which were radium, mesothorium
and thorium-x are highly dengerous substances and injurious to the
human body when brought into close proximity therewith as those in
charge of the defendant's operations well knew.
3. The defendant well knowing the dangerous nature of the said
radioactive substances failed to keep the same in control but was
negligent in allowing the said dangerous substances to escape and come
within close proximity with the plaintiff's person where the said
plaintiff was lawfully entitled to be and the said defendant was negli-
gent in that it carelessly and negligently placed said substances so
that the plaintiff was exposed to the penetrative rays of the said
substances, inhaled the dust of the said radioactive substances and the
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