§ 18-60-101 — Right of cotenants to accounting

(a) When any joint tenant, tenant in common, or coparcener in any real estate, or any interest therein, shall take, use, or have the profits and benefits thereof in greater proportion than his or her interest therein, that person, or his or her executor or administrator, shall account therefor to his or her cotenant or cotenants, jointly or severally. (b) Joint tenants, tenants in common, and coparceners in any real or personal estate may maintain civil actions against their cotenants who receive as bailiffs more than their due proportion of the benefits of the estate. Rev. Stat., ch. 2, §§ 1, 2; C. & M. Dig., §§ 1087, 1088; Pope's Dig., §§ 1300, 1301; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 50-101, 50-102.