Legal Opinion
Dalrymple v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided December 11, 1997No. 55 E.D. Appeal Dkt. 1996PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CAPPY, Justice.
This case presents the court with an issue of contemporary significance: Whether the discovery rule should extend the statute of limitations in a case where the plaintiff claims that repressed memory of an injury is the cause of the failure to file the action timely? Answering this question in the negative, we affirm the decision of the Superior Court affirming the order of the trial court granting summary judgment.
Appellant is in her mid-thirties and alleges in her Complaint that she recovered memories on August 25, 1990 of a childhood sexual assault that…
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