State of Maine v. Moosehead Mountain Resort, Inc.

Summary

The court affirmed summary judgment enforcing deed restrictions that barred most timber harvesting and required continued public use of the entire listed ski area. It held that the State could enforce the covenants without owning a benefiting parcel, construed the public-use covenant to require reasonable efforts to keep the whole ski area open, and rejected the Resort’s arguments based on unreasonableness, lack of specific notice, and laches.