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0 a ~ •w-`t 'T.* •I ~ + _ * ~ 11 Burke and`Ho kins re e• ' ti~_,;~ f~x ~ JU~4RS NAMED ~enting R. J. Reynolds, and ~,:Y, ~~ M` f t~u~~ t L.erille and Kelleher for Liggett y ~ ~~W IN SLilO11 E11E CASE ~ Meyers. New York firms ~" r t 1 associated in the case are Davis, 1'olk, Sunderland and Kindle ` r 2t. J ol'ds and Web• 3 K'~ ~~~ ~ Ci' arettes H e I d Death ~ i[° Reyn (4ter, Sheffield and Chrystie for Cause ~y Widow ytY4 Liggett and Meyer: Attorneys have submitted 40 t72 @0112 t li6td ©f fll)OUt $Q ex- ~ ~ - . „r, [ ln n nrrr ~ i~ e ; 4; t n ~ ~ i t rrTwelve+ ~inors taPt'e ` "selected 14ionday in federal court for the ~~ in medical and research ~ ~% trial of a suit In which it is aI- fields who may be called during the case which is expected to ~ leged that the plai ff nti'a death tk t t ~ _ take aboutwo weesory. ~:, : `~ hom lung cancer was caused •Among those who will testify ; ~ ' by his cigaret smoking. ~ are Dr. Alton Ochsner of New l: The whole day was taken up Orleans and a numberf of other theletiof th 12 1 lolhyii andueons e scn oeur-ca pscans srg ors. The first venire of 35 per- as'weii as a number of other sons was exhausted and an ad- local physicians and surgeons ditional venire had to be called as well as a number from varl ~ to complete the selection. ous parts of the country and . .:.Two alternate jurors will te f rom as far away as Canada I.ltd Tdhrd Atli seeceuesay wen cout anusraa. ~ } opens at 10 a. m.,, and then at- SEEKS' $119,500. torneys in the case will make Mrs. Lartigue Is seeking dam• `' their opening statements to the ages ot;779,500 for her husband' Jti "- fury. The alternate jurors will band's death, charging negli- participate in the case only itl gence on the part of the ciga- the event regular members of rette manufacturers as well as -the jury are unable to complete reaches of express and im• . a hearing of the trial. _ ,.Plied"warranty. Tfie suit has been, brought by The 12 jurors' selected Monday k -~~Mrs, Victoria St. Pierre Lark1= latclude seven smokers and five r TE',~r f gue, formerly a resident E+E non-smokers. ' Franklin, now of Houston, Tex-,_, t,-LThose on-the jury include Mrs She claims that her husband, •- l~owen G. Quebedo, Mrs. Flor- Frank J. Lartigue, began smok- Phce J: Steiner, Jules L. Lam- ~ ing in 1899 And smoked two " bert Sr.; Harold Theriot, Mrs. a` packages of cigarettes a day un. Yvonne Posner, Neonard J. Jar- til shortly before his death on ~ V teau, Louis J. Gamas, Mrs. - r July 13. 1955. Helen M. Jeffries, Joseph J. EXPERTS TO TPSTIP'Y ~bruster, Joseph J. Olivier Mrs. Lart{gue is tepresented 'Jr., Mrs. Rose Barber and Mrs. by H. Alva Brumfield tif Baton >~verly O. Carmaday. Rouge and Melvin M. Belli' ol -Many prospective jurors tvere ~ . San Francisco i'n her suit against excused by Judge Herbert W. the Liggett and Meyers Tobacco CHristenberry when they skid Company and the R. J. Reynolds that they had definite opinions lbbacco Company. as to whether cigarette smok- The companies are represent- Ing was related to cancer. ed by the New Orleans law .. firms of Chaffe, McCall, Plyil'= 5 T , ,_._ ,~........ z !