Ness v. St. Aloisius Hospital

PEDERSON, Justice.

This appeal involves a dispute in the application of the legal concept of subrogation of rights under the provisions of the North Dakota workmen’s compensation statutes as affected by the expiration of the time specified in the applicable statute of limitations. Subrogation, which is not defined in the workmen’s compensation law or elsewhere in our statutes, is: “a legal operation by which a third person who pays a creditor succeeds to his rights against the debtor as if he were his assignee.” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. In an insurance matter this court…