Section 21-1-11 - Interest awarded on damages certain.
21-1-11. Interest awarded on damages certain. Every person who is entitled to recover damages certain, or capable of being made certain by calculation, and the right to recover which is vested in him upon a particular day, is entitled also to recover interest thereon from that day, except during such time as the debtor is prevented by law, or by the act of the creditor, from paying the debt.
Source: CivC 1877, § 1943; CL 1887, § 4577; RCivC 1903, § 2289; RC 1919, § 1962; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.1711.