Pandey v. Paul Revere Life Insurance

The plaintiff is appealing from the denial of relief in the county court of two separate petitions brought under G. L. c. 211, § 3 (1994 ed.). In both petitions, the plaintiff sought reversal of a Superior Court order which allowed the defendants’ motion to vacate default judgments entered against them on October 21, 1993, pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 33 (a), as amended, 368 Mass. 906 (1976), for failure to reply promptly to interrogatories.

Relief pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3, is not available to the plaintiff. See Planned Parenthood League of Mass., Inc. v. Operation Rescue, 406 Mass. 701,…