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Uchel v Ngirachebaed [1973] TTLawRp 12; 6 TTR 188 (25 May 1973)

6 TTR 188

TRIAL DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT

PALAU DISTRICT

Civil Action No. 574

RECHELBANG UCHEL and MAD KDESAU

Plaintiffs

OKETOL NGIRACHEBAED

Defendant

TURNER, Associate Justice

May 25, 1973

At the time set for hearing plaintiffs' motion for default judgment, the defendant with his counsel, as well as the plaintiffs and their counsel, appeared. Defendant stated he did not claim any interest in the land in question except as a member of his clan, and that he would not contest his right to the land as against plaintiff Mad Kdesau. Defendant requested, and plaintiffs did not object, to a ninety day period within which to remove his house .from the land. It is, therefore,

Ordered, adjudged and decreed:-

1. That defendant has no interest, except as a clan member may have, in the land known as Kamerir, described as Lot No. 271 (1), comprising 154 tsubo, bounded on the north by the public road, on the east by Kadoi's land, on the south by the ocean and on the west by Delemau's land, in Melekeok Municipality, Palau District.
2. That plaintiff, Mad Kdesau, inherited the land in question from Sumang, and he transferred the land to plaintiff Rechelbang Uchel by deed dated and recorded March 21, 1972, in the office of the Clerk of Courts.