Amory v. Reliance Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Eight actions of CONTRACT, the first and second and certain counts of the declarations in the seventh and eight actions being upon policies of insurance against loss or damage by fire of premises numbered 34 on West Third Street in Chelsea, and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth and the remaining counts of the declarations in the seventh and eighth actions being upon policies relating to premises numbered 92 on Arlington Street in Chelsea.
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Eight actions of CONTRACT, the first and second and certain counts of the declarations in the seventh and eight actions being upon policies of insurance against loss or damage by fire of premises numbered 34 on West Third Street in Chelsea, and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth and the remaining counts of the declarations in the seventh and eighth actions being upon policies relating to premises numbered 92 on Arlington Street in Chelsea. Writs dated December 26, 1908. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Morton, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts,…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
Each of the two plaintiffs is a mortgagee, who claims under a policy of insurance for a loss payable to him, which resulted from the burning of a building on the mortgaged property. There were two separate estates, and each plaintiff has brought an action against four different insurance companies, each of three of which issued a policy upon the building on the first of these estates. One of these three issued another policy on the building on the second estate, and the fourth also issued a policy on this building. Because of the foreclosure of a later mortgage covering both estates, which…
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