Prosch v. Gabbard

This is an appeal from a decisin and judgment entered February 21, 1979, evicting appellant Edmund Joseph Prosch by May 1, 1979 from a house he was occupying on land known as "Lalomago" in the village of Leloaloa. For the reasons stated below, we conclude that Appellees have a superior right to possession of the property in question and affirm the judgment of the trial court.

In 1941, Chief Uti conveyed to appellee Barbara Yandall, by deed approved by the Governor of American Samoa, approximately one-quarter acre of land. In 1945, after receiving the permission of appellee Barbara Yandall, her…