Conte v. People

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• where embezzled district funds used by estate administrator to pay creditors, district subrogated to creditor’s rights against administrator’s surety
• doctrine covers “one who, not as a volunteer or in his own wrong and where there are no outstanding and superior equities, pays the debt of another, is substituted to all the rights and remedies of the other, and the debt is treated in equity as still existing for his benefit.”

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