Landford v. Universal Insurance

These are three actions of contract tried together, wherein the plaintiff seeks to recover fire insurance under four policies purporting to cover a one-story summer restaurant building known as “Ye Turnpike Inn” in New-bury, Massachusetts. All the policies were in the form prescribed by G. L. c. 175, § 99, and in all of them one Leslie R. Brown was named as the insured. Each policy contained a clause that the “Loss, if any, on real estate” was payable to the plaintiff as “First Mortgagee.” The property is described as follows: “one story summer restaurant building and additions thereto,…