If someone is owed unpaid rent and then dies, the person handling their estate can still go to court to collect that unpaid rent from the renter or the renter's estate.
441.170. of or . — The or of any person to whom any rent shall have been due and unpaid at the time of the death of such person may have the same remedy, by against the , his executors or administrators, for the recovery thereof, that their or might have if living.
(RSMo 1939 § 2962)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2576; 1919 § 6872; 1909 § 7875
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