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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY
:
ETHELWYNNE METZ, (nee Peer),
and EDWARD METZ, her husband,
:
Plaintiffs
:
Action at Law
-VS-
:
ORDER
UNITED STATES RADIUM CORPORA-
:
TION, a corporation of the
State of Delaware,
:
Defendant.
:
:
The plaintiffs having filed a com-
plaint herein, wherein they allege that said female plaintiff
was employed by the defendant between March lst, 1916, and
December 15th, 1918, in the plant of the defendant, which
was engaged in the distribution of radium and radium products
and the manufacture and distribution of radium and other
luminous materials, which materials and products plaintiffs
allege were deleterious to human heal th if a person were
exposed thereto; and further alleging that the defendant
failed in its duty to afford said female plaintiff a reason-
ably safe place to work, and reasonably safe tools and
materials to work with, and that the said defendant negli-
gently failed to warn the female plaintiff of the dangers
of working with, or in proximity to, said materials, and
in negligently directing the said female plaintiff to use
certain methods in the mixing and application of said
materials in the course of her employment, and that by
reason thereof the said female plaintiff became exposed to
the said dangerous materials and her body became impregnated
with the same, whereby she became affected with an industrial
disease which has recently become known as radium poisoning,
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