21-28-11. Action for damages by successful claimant of office.If judgment be rendered upon the right of the person so alleged to be entitled, in favor of such person, he may recover, by action, the damages which he shall have sustained by reason of the usurpation by the defendant of the office from which such defendant has been excluded. Source: CCivP 1877, §540; CL 1887, §5354; RCCivP 1903, §579; RC 1919, §2790; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.0515.
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