2019 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXV - Civil Procedure and Limitations
Chapter 511 - Judgments
Section 511.160 Damages not to exceed amount claimed.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 511.160 (2019)

Effective 28 Aug 1939

511.160. Damages not to exceed amount claimed. — 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.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1246)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1080; 1919 § 1531; 1909 § 2100

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