58-3410. Prohibited claims; effect of filing. No person shall use the privilege of filing notices hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land, and in any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court shall find that any person has filed a claim for that reason, the court shall award the plaintiff all the costs of such action, including such attorneys' fees as the court may allow, and, in addition, shall decree that the defendant asserting such claim shall pay all damages that plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been so filed of record.
History: L. 1973, ch. 227, ยง 10; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 58 - Personal And Real Property
Article 34 - Marketable Record Title Act
58-3403 Marketable record title; unbroken chain of title.
58-3404 Validity of certain interests.
58-3405 Same; effect; certain interests, claims and charges declared null and void.
58-3406 Notice required to preserve claim of interest in land, exception.
58-3407 Notice; contents; filing; recording and indexing by register of deeds; "notice index."
58-3408 Certain interests not barred or extinguished.
58-3409 Same; certain statutes not affected.