Application to recover damages from fund
If a person's farm animals or birds are hurt or killed by dogs, they can ask to be paid from a county fund. To do this, they must file a written, sworn application with the county clerk within 10 days of the incident. Two other county residents — who are not related to them and not their employees — must also sign it. The application must include where it happened, a description of the animals, and what the animals were worth. The county commission reviews the claims, but no one can be paid if their own dog killed their own animals.
273.110. to recover from . — 1. No owner or of or which has been injured or killed by dogs shall be entitled to receive any portion of the unless within ten days after suffering such loss or damage he, with two other residents of the county, not kin to him by blood or marriage or not in his employ, make written application supported by to the county clerk on blanks furnished by the county clerk, stating:
(1) That he is a resident of the state of Missouri, and that he has resided in such county for more than thirty days immediately preceding the date of the injury or killing of his livestock or poultry;
(2) That he was the owner or custodian on such date of such livestock or poultry;
(3) The of the on which such livestock or poultry was injured or killed;
(4) A complete description as to the number, weight and color of such livestock or poultry;
(5) The thereof on the date of such injury or killing.
2. The county clerk shall file all such applications and affidavits so received by him to be examined and passed upon by the , except that no shall be considered or paid for the destruction of livestock or poultry by a dog or dogs belonging to the owner of such livestock or poultry.
(RSMo 1939 § 14549, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1070)
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