If someone purposely and recklessly destroys or damages property they were supposed to take care of, a court will make them pay three times the normal amount of damages.
537.490. if was committed. — If in any for waste, the jury find that the waste was wantonly committed, shall be entered for three times the amount of the assessed.
(RSMo 1939 § 3010)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2623; 1919 § 6917; 1909 § 7920
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