A COUPLE have successfully sued a golf course after their dream home was bombarded by hundreds of balls over four years.
Erik and Athina Tenczar bought their Kingston, Massachusetts, home for $750,000 four years ago thinking it would be a great place to raise their three children.
But in that time they have picked up nearly 700 balls, suffered broken windows, dented sidings and gunshot-sounding golf balls from the neighboring golf course, turning their family home into a "nightmare".
It became so bad that they even built a partition to shield a small section of their deck from flying objects.
The couple decided to take legal action and sued their neighbors at the Indian Pond Country Club for trespass over the continual bombardment, The Boston Globe reports.
In December, a jury at Plymouth Superior Court granted the Tenczars a sizeable $3.5million for damages and emotional and mental suffering following a six-day trial.
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This award totals $4.9m when interest is included.
“We’re always on edge,” Erik Tenczar, 43, told the paper. “It’s been emotionally taxing on us.”
On one occasion, the window over the playroom was struck, spraying shards of glass over the toys.
Recently, it reports, a deck railing was knocked out.
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“Honestly, if you have all these houses on a course, I assumed it was safe,” Athina Tenczar, 36, said.
The family tried calling the country club, but say they got little response.
They also called the cops but the family were told there was little law enforcement could do besides also call the club.
So the family hired a lawyer and sued.
“They bought what they thought was their dream house,” the Tenczars’ lawyer Bob Galvin told the paper. “And it became a nightmare for them.”
The country club’s lawyer John Flemming told the paper the course’s owners took action by consulting an architect in an attempt to find a solution.
He disputed the golf course was unresponsive to the Tenczars, the report says.
The country club has since fixed the course’s 15th tee and the Tenczars have not seen a golf ball on their property for months.
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Lawyers for the country club though are reportedly planning to file an appeal, according to the Globe.
“In my opinion, as a matter of law, the verdict of $3.5m for alleged emotional distress is against the weight of the evidence,” Flemming said.
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