43-17-19. Costs of action to enforce plat and survey of relicted lands.
The court may adjudge the defendants who are owners of such land or any part thereof to pay the costs and disbursements of such action in such proportions as the court may deem just and equitable, including a reasonable amount for the survey, the fees of recording, and reasonable counsel fees for the plaintiff, and three dollars per day for the two commissioners other than the surveyor and ten cents per mile for each mile by them necessarily traveled.
Source: SL 1903, ch 173, §3; RC 1919, §506; SDC 1939, §51.1112.