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2021 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 537 - Torts and Actions for Damages
Section 537.490 - Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed.
Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 537.490 (2021)
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
537.490. Treble damages if waste was wantonly committed. — If in any action for waste, the jury find that the waste was wantonly committed, judgment shall be entered for three times the amount of the damages assessed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3010)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2623; 1919 § 6917; 1909 § 7920
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