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UNIZED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRIOS OF NSW JERSEY HAROLD J. WEBER, Administrator Ad Prosequen- dun of LOUISE HANLE WEBER, deceased, and HAROLD J. WEBER, edministrator of the ( estate of LOUISE HANLE WEBER, decessed, << Flaintiffs, ( Action at Les ( UNITED BTATES RADIUM CORPOR- COMPLATIE ATION, a corporation of the ) State of Delaware, Defendent ) The plaintiff anrold J. Weber, administrator ad-pro- sequencum of louine Honle Wober, decenaod, asya thats FIRST court l. The plaintiff is a resident and citisen of the mucipality Bridge, Wister County, in the State of New Xork. The plaintiff was duly appointed and has qualified as administrater ad pro- seutzandum of Louina Henla auch appointamt having beam made by the Surrogate of Resex County, New Jerney, on June 17, 1935. 2. The defondant is a corparation of the State of Delaware, 3. The amount in controversy heroin exceeis the aum of $5,000.00, exclusive of interest and coats. 4. Prior to, during, and for any years after 1918 the defendant was engaged in the maufacture and anle of various commodities rendered luninous by the application of zadio active substances, particularly tha dials end handa of satches and clocks. 5. The defendant maintained a plant at Orange, New Jersey where substances containing radio active materials were prepared and applied to the commodities hereinabove mentioned, the redioactivo materials used being radium, mesothorium, and 6. Each of these last mentioned materials whether used alone or in any combination, is inherently potent and inherently highly dengarous and injurious to husan health and humen tissues when brought into close proximity with the human body or when introduced therein, and was in