La Porte v. United States Radium Corporation

FORMAN, District Judge.

The principal question in this suit is whether or not the plaintiff, in an action at law for damages caused by injuries to the plaintiff’s intestate and her subsequent death, is entitled to an injunction restraining the defendant from pleading the stat'ute of limitations, as a bar to the plaintiff’s alleged cause of action at law on the ground of equitable fraud.

Irene F. La Porte, the -plaintiff’s intestate, was employed by the defendant, the United States Radium Corporation, from-May 14, 1917, to December 11, 1918, and for a brief period of not over six weeks in 1920.

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