21-41-3. Request before action for quitclaim deed--Expense tendered--Costs and attorney fee taxed if plaintiff successful in action. If a party, twenty days or more before bringing suit to quiet a title to real estate shall request of the person holding an apparent adverse interest or right therein the execution of a quitclaim deed or other instrument necessary to divest said person of such apparent adverse interest therein, and shall also tender to him one dollar and twenty-five cents to cover the expense of the execution and delivery of the deed or such other instrument, and if he shall refuse or neglect to comply therewith, the filing of a disclaimer of interest or right shall not avoid the costs in an action afterwards brought, and the court may in its discretion, if the plaintiff succeeds, tax in addition to the ordinary costs of court, an attorney fee for plaintiff's attorney not exceeding forty dollars.
Source: SL 1913, ch 170; RC 1919, § 2867; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.1523.
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