Legal Opinion
Carol Overall v. Estate of L.H.P. Klotz
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 29, 1995No. 689, Docket 94-7407PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
Carol Overall claims that her father abused her sexually, emotionally and physically from 1947 until 1949, and that the abuse was so severe that she repressed all memories of it for more than forty years. We are not called upon to decide whether Overall is telling the truth. Instead, we must decide whether in 1992, more than forty-three years after she claims her father struck the last blow and uttered the last threat, it was too late for her to ask the courts to force her father, or more precisely his estate, to pay for this alleged abuse.
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