43-13-10. Owner in fee of servient tenement--Action for possession of land--Public servitude.

The owner in fee of a servient tenement may maintain an action for the possession of the land, against anyone unlawfully possessed thereof, though a servitude exists thereon in favor of the public.

Source: CivC 1877, § 253; CL 1887, § 2769; RCivC 1903, § 276; RC 1919, § 346; SDC 1939, § 51.0608.