Kearsarge Soaring Ass'n v. Kearsarge Valley Golf Club, Inc.

The defendant, Kearsarge Valley Golf Club, Inc., appeals from a decision of the New London District Court (Carney, S.J.) holding it liable for damages to the plaintiff Kearsarge Soaring Association’s aircraft. We affirm.

In August 1980, a member of the plaintiff association landed a plane owned by the plaintiff at the defendant’s facility in Sutton. In order to avoid some golfers who were hitting golf balls onto the runway, the pilot maneuvered the aircraft to the right side of the runway. The plane was damaged as it was being parked, when its left landing gear fell into a cesspool which had…