Strong v. Stoneham Co-operative Bank

In his bill for declaratory relief the plaintiff seeks to have first mortgages held by the defendant bank of three parcels of land subordinated to the plaintiffs junior mortgages. Details of the bank’s mortgages are to be found in Strong v. Stoneham Co-op. Bank, 357 Mass. 662 (1970), to which the present plaintiff, the father of the plaintiff named in the earlier case, was not a party. The plaintiff appeals from a final decree declaring that the bank’s title acquired by sales in foreclosure proceedings (begun but not completed prior to the commencement of this suit) is not subject to rights…