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Title XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS

Chapter 537

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  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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