State v. Jones

I

Appellant, in its first proposition of law, essentially asserts that the doctrine of subrogation should allow its claim to have priority over the undiscovered but properly recorded claim of the state.

In a broad sense, one person is subrogated to certain rights of another person where he is substituted in the place *101of such other person so that he succeeds to those rights of the other person. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Hensgen (1970), 22 Ohio St. 2d 83.

The doctrine of subrogation incorporates both conventional subrogation and legal (or equitable) subrogation. Conventional subrogation is premised…