Recovery action
If a tenant gets served with court papers about a lawsuit over the place they are renting, they have to tell their landlord (or the landlord's agent) right away. If they do not, they can be forced to pay the landlord an amount equal to three years of rent.
441.090. Recovery — with — notice — . — Every tenant on whom a summons in an action to recover the held by him shall be served shall give notice thereof to the person, or the of the person, of whom such tenant holds, under the penalty of to such person the value of three years' rent of the occupied by him.
(RSMo 1939 § 2963)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2577; 1919 § 6873; 1909 § 7876
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