Strong v. Merchants Mutual Insurance

We granted further appellate review in this case solely on the issue of damages against the defendant insurance company (insurer). The Appeals Court decided that the purported cancellation of certain fire insurance policies on property owned by the plaintiff was ineffective but that the plaintiffs mortgagee bank properly took possession of the property following receipt of notices from *752the insurer representing that the policies had been can-celled. Strong v. Merchants Mut. Ins. Co. Mass. App. Ct. (1974).a The Appeals Court concluded, however, that the plaintiff had failed to prove that he had…