Lutu v. Malia

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROEL, Associate Justice.

On July 2, 1965, Plaintiff filed a petition seeking to evict the Defendant from the Plaintiff’s land named Asila, located in the Village of Fagatogo. The Defendant did not file any written answer up to the time of the trial.

The members of the Court viewed the land in question and the house where Defendant lives, on the day of the trial.

At the trial Lutu took the stand on his own behalf. He testified that the land where the Defendant had her house and lived was the communal land of the Lutu Family; that *714the name of the land was Asila. He further…