Aumavae v. Tuitele

OPINION OF THE COURT

MORROW, Chief Judge.

Aumavae acting in behalf of the Aumavae Family instituted an action to evict Tuitele from certain land in the village of Leone, claiming that such land was the communal land of the Aumavae Family, that he (Aumavae) gave permission to Tuitele to enter upon and use such land about 1940 or 1941, that Tuitele entered, put up houses and put in plantations on the land, that sometime in March 1958 he notified Tuitele to surrender possession of such land to him and that Tuitele has failed and refused to do so.

Tuitele claims that part of the land is known as…