Pelisamen v. Land Commission of the Commonwealth Government

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT

Plaintiffs, certain children of Alfredo Pelisamen, have brought this action to quiet title to agricultural homestead 143 (Tract 21964) (hereinafter "the homestead"). Procedurally, this aciicn comes before i ;.t court as an aft-ea.. iron, a Determi nai i ci of Ownership of the homestead issued to defendant Nekaifes by the Land Commission. Defendants, jointly, have now moved for summary judgment.

FACTS

In 1955 Alfredo Pelisamen, a citizen of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, applied for an agricultural homestead. Thereafter, Pelisamen entered ana occupied…