2018 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name
Section 527.020 Power to construe.
Effective 28 Aug 1939
Title XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS
Chapter 527527.020. Power to construe. — Any person interested under a deed, will, written contract or other writings constituting a contract, or whose rights, status or other legal relations are affected by a statute, municipal ordinance, contract or franchise, may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise and obtain a declaration of rights, status or other legal relations thereunder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1127)
(1978) Held not-for-profit corporation is legal entity separate and apart from the persons who are members, and in order to have standing the corporation itself must have legally protected interest. Interest of individual members cannot give standing to corporation. Citizens Against Rezoning, Inc. v. St. Louis County (A.), 563 S.W.2d 173.
