A resort community that has sparred with Elk Mountain over property rights for years filed a new lawsuit against the ski resort on Thursday alleging that the mountain's president wrongly claimed and transferred a section of the village's property to Elk.
The Village of Four Seasons said Elk President Joseph P. Moore Jr. fraudulently claimed ownership of the property so that Elk could build a gravity sewer line through the plot, according to the suit filed in Susquehanna County Court. The ski resort then tried to hide and deny that the line was built through village property, it said.
The gravity line is much less expensive than an alternate system that would have been necessary to pump sewage around the disputed parcel.
Efforts to reach an Elk Mountain attorney Friday were unsuccessful.
The village is asking a judge to confirm the community's sole ownership of the parcel and require the resort to immediately remove the sewer line from the plot.
The suit follows an earlier action filed by the village against Elk last year over privileges outlined when the village and ski resort were divided from a single property decades ago.
In that case, which is ongoing, the village argued that Elk wrongly closed the residents' access gate to the mountain and took water from a village lake for snowmaking without compensating the community for it.
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