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Title XVII AGRICULTURE AND ANIMALS

Chapter 272

< > Effective - 02 Jan 1979, 2 histories, see footnote (history) bottom

  272.030.  Owners of stock liable for damages — stock may be taken up. — If any horses, cattle or other stock shall break over or through any lawful fence, as defined in section 272.020, and by so doing obtain access to, or do trespass upon, the premises of another, the owner of such animal shall, for the first trespass, make reparation to the party injured for the true value of the damages sustained, to be recovered with costs before a circuit or associate circuit judge, and for any subsequent trespass the party injured may put up said animal or animals and take good care of the same and immediately notify the owner, who shall pay to taker-up the amount of the damages sustained, and such compensation as shall be reasonable for the taking up and keeping of such animals, before he shall be allowed to remove the same, and if the owner and taker-up cannot agree upon the amount of the damages and compensation, either party may institute an action in circuit court as in other civil cases.  If the owner recover, he shall recover his costs and any damages he may have sustained, and the court shall issue an order requiring the taker-up to deliver to him the animals.  If the taker-up recover, the judgment shall be a lien upon the animals taken up, and in addition to a general judgment and execution, he shall have a special execution against such animals to pay the judgment rendered, and costs.

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(RSMo 1939 § 14571, A.L. 1945 p. 917, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12908; 1919 § 5513; 1909 § 6456

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