Federal National Mortgage Ass'n v. Therrian

It may be that the order of the Housing Court judge, from which Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) appeals, is as wise and pragmatic as the posture of Fannie Mae is obtuse and bureaucratic, but there was no lawful basis for the judge’s action and we are bound to vacate it.

These consolidated cases both involve summary process evictions under G. L. c. 239 and pertain to two apartments in the same three-decker house on Cottage Street in Lynn; the third apartment was vacant. Fannie Mae had become owner of the fee title to the premises through mortgage foreclosure *524on February 27,…