Talo v. Tavai

MORROW, Chief Justice.

Tavai applied to the Registrar of Titles to have the land Laolao in Pago Pago registered as his property. Talo filed an objection to such proposed registration, claiming the land as his. Hence the litigation. See Sec. 74 of the Codification. At the opening of the trial each of the respective parties stated that the land was the communal property of *65his matai family and not his own individual property. It is apparent from the provisions of the above section that it was the legislative intent that the claims of all persons to a tract of land offered for registration not…