PIPER CAFE, INC. v. COMMERCIAL UNION INS. COS.

No. 88-P-125.

27 Mass. App. Ct. 317 (1989)

537 N.E.2d 1274

PIPER CAFE, INC. & others vs. COMMERCIAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Hampden.

May 15, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Field (Erik Lund with him) for the plaintiffs.

Paul S. Weinberg for the defendant.

Present: GREANEY, C.J., CUTTER, & PERRETTA, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

On May 10, 1983, a fire, possibly incendiary in origin, took place in a commercial building (the locus) in Springfield owned by Calabrese and Peluso (see note 1). Piper Cafe, Inc. (Piper), a Massachusetts corporation of which Calabrese and Peluso were the principal shareholders, had operated a restaurant known as Gabriel's, under a rental arrangement from themselves, on the first floor and part of the second floor of the locus. The locus and its contents...

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