Whenever any assessment, or installment thereof, shall be paid, or any delinquency therefor be redeemed, or any judgment therefor be paid by any joint owner of any property assessed for any improvement, such joint owner may, after demand and refusal, by an action brought in the district court, recover from each of the other co-owners the respective amounts of such payment which each such co-owner should bear, with interest thereon at 10 percent per annum from the date of such payments, and costs of the action, and the joint owner making such payments shall have a lien upon the undivided interest of the other co-owners in and to such property from date of such payment.
NRS 271.460