2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXV CIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS
Chapter 511 Judgments
Section 511.160. Damages not to exceed amount claimed.


MO Rev Stat § 511.160. What's This?

Damages not to exceed amount claimed.

511.160. Whenever such interlocutory judgment shall be rendered for the plaintiff, the damages or other relief shall not be other or greater than that which he shall have demanded in the petition, as originally filed and served on defendant; but in any other case, the court may grant him any relief consistent with the case made by the plaintiff and embraced within the issues.

(RSMo 1939 1246)

Prior revisions: 1929 1080; 1919 1531; 1909 2100

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