Legal Opinion

Aigamaua Family v. Poloa

High Court of American Samoa

Decided September 17, 1949No. 30-1949Published

1Opinion of the Court

DECISION

MORROW, Chief Justice.

Poloa filed an application to have the land Feologi in Leone registered as the communal family land of the Poloa title. Aigamaua filed an objection to the proposed registration claiming that the land was the property of the Aigamaua family. Salavea Otela also filed an objection claiming that the surveyed land was his individually owned property. Hence this litigation. See Sec. 905 of the A. S. Code. A survey of the land was filed with the application. The court viewed the land in the presence of the parties prior to the hearing.

At the hearing Aigamaua claimed…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Peabody v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1899

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