If an award shall be paid to a person not entitled thereto, the sole recourse of the person to whom it should have been paid shall be against the person to whom it shall have been paid. In such event the person entitled to the award may sue for and recover the same, with lawful interest and costs of suit, as such money had and received to his or her use by the person to whom the same shall have been paid.
[20:135:1935; 1931 NCL § 6179.40]