Commonwealth v. Stuyvesant Insurance

1. The allegations in the affidavits of the defendant’s agent to the effect that the defendants in the three underlying criminal cases may have been defaulted improperly due to insufficiency of notice were "made on information and belief, as opposed to personal knowledge, [and thus] are to be disregarded in considering a motion for summary judgment.” Shapiro Equip. Corp. v. Morris & Son Constr. Corp., 369 Mass. 968 (1976). See Stetson v. Selectmen of Carlisle, 369 Mass. 755, 763 n.12 (1976). 2. The contention that the courts’ removal of prior defaults by the defendant’s principals in two of…