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Herald, Appellee, v. Hood, Appellant.
[Cite as Herald v. Hood (1994), Ohio St.3d .]
Statutes of limitations -- Discovery rule applied to toll
statute of limitations where victim of childhood sexual
abuse represses memories of that abuse until a later time
-- Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed.
(No. 93-1864 -- Submitted August 31, 1994 -- Decided
September 28, 1994.)
Appeal from the Court of Appeals for Summit County, No.
15986.

Robert A. Royer and Suzanne C. Porter, for appellee.
Ted Chuparkoff and Wayne Hassay, for appellant.
Joan Krauskopf, urging affirmance for amici curiae, Now
Legal Defense and Education Fund and Ohio National Organization
for Women, Inc.

Based upon our decision in Ault v. Jasko (1994), 70 Ohio
St.3d 114, N.E.2d , wherein we applied the discovery rule
for purposes of tolling the statute of limitations in
child-sexual-abuse-repressed-memory cases, this appeal is
dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.
Moyer, C.J., A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney
and Pfeifer, JJ., concur.
Wright, J., dissents for the reasons stated in his
dissenting opinion in Ault v. Jasko (1994), 70 Ohio St.3d
114, N.E.2d .