§ 15-6-442 — Right of paying joint owner to contribution; lien created

If any local assessment or installment thereof is paid, or any
certificate of sale redeemed, or any judgment paid by any joint
owner of any property assessed for any local improvement, the
joint owner, after demand and refusal, by an action brought in
the district court, may recover from each of his coowners the
amounts of the payment which each coowner should bear, with
interest thereon at ten percent (10%) per year from the date of
the payments, and the costs of the action. The joint owner
making payment has a lien upon the undivided interest of his
coowners in the property from date of payment.