Sauafea v. Vaaitautia

DECISION

MORROW, Chief Justice.

A. Vaaitautia offered certain land in Aua for registration as the communal land of the Vaaitautia family. The offer was accompanied by a survey of the land and filed *311with the Registrar of Titles. Sauafea Moelata filed an objection to the proposed registration, claiming the surveyed land as his own individual property.

The evidence clearly indicated that the land has had plantations on it ever since about 1926 or 1927. There is a dispute as to whether it had plantations on it prior to that time. The objector introduced evidence to the effect that he and his three…