Strong v. Merchants Mutual Insurance

This is a bill for declaratory and other relief (G. L. c. 231A, § 1). The plaintiff, trustee of the Berkeley Trust, seeks a determination that a notice by the defendant Merchants Mutual Insurance Company (insurer) cancelling fire insurance on property owned by the trust was invalid. The plaintiff also seeks a determination that the resulting entry on the property by the Warren Five Cents Savings Bank of Peabody (bank), the holder of a first mortgage thereon, was consequently invalid, as was the subsequent entry by the defendants Allen B. Schwartz and Duco Associates, Inc., joint holders of a…