Hardy v. Utica Mutual Insurance

The judgment obtained by the plaintiff in the First District Court of Eastern Middlesex against the defendant’s insured, satisfaction of which was sought by the present bill in equity brought in the Superior Court under G. L. c. 214, § 3(10) (as in effect prior to St. 1973, c. 1114, § 62) and granted by the decree appealed from, was invalid, as the District Court never acquired jurisdiction for the reasons stated in Nickerson v. Fales, 342 Mass. 194, 196-200 (1961), White v. Hultgren, 357 Mass. 36, 39-40 (1970), and Gifford v. Spehr, 358 Mass. 658, 660-662, 663-664 (1971). While the foregoing…