REGIE DE L'ASSURANCE AUTO. v. JENSEN

No. C2-86-336.

399 N.W.2d 85 (1987)

REGIE DE L'ASSURANCE AUTOMOBILE DU QUEBEC, individually and as Trustee for the Heirs of Marguerite Grapes, deceased, Respondent, v. Lauritz JENSEN, Petitioner, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

January 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cahill & Maring, Moorhead, for appellant.

Dosland, Dosland, Nordhougen, Lillehaug & Johnson, American Bank & Trust Company, Moorhead, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


KELLEY, Justice.

Respondent Regie de l'assurance Automobile due Quebec (the Regie)1 commenced an equitable subrogation action against Appellant Lauritz Jensen to recover certain payments it had made to Douglas Grapes, the surviving spouse of Marguerite Grapes who had been killed in a Minnesota automobile accident when riding in a car struck by Jensen's pickup truck. The trial court held (1) that under Minnesota law the equitable subrogation...

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