Title XXXVI — STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS

*526.010. Injunctions granted by certain courts — appeals. — 1. Injunctions may be granted by a circuit judge or an associate circuit judge. 2. In any action in which the state or a statewide official is preliminarily enjoined from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise effectuati…

526.030. Remedy by injunction to exist, in what cases — prohibition. — The remedy by writ of injunction or prohibition shall exist in all cases where a cloud would be put on the title of real estate being sold under an execution against a person, partnership or corporation having…

526.040. Filing of petition and return of injunction bond. — Before any party shall be entitled to the injunction herein provided, he shall have filed in the circuit court, or in the office of the clerk thereof, having jurisdiction of the suit, his petition setting forth his caus…

526.050. Temporary injunction, when granted. — When it shall appear by the petition that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, and such relief, or any part thereof, consists, in restraining the commission or continuance of some act of the defendant, the commission or …

526.070. Injunction bond. — No injunction, unless on final hearing or judgment, shall issue in any case, except in suits instituted by the state in its own behalf, until the plaintiff, or some responsible person for him, shall have executed a bond with sufficient surety or sureti…

526.080. Bond, where filed. — Such bond shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county to which the injunction is returnable, and the bond may be entered into before said clerk, if the court or judge granting the injunction shall first approve of the security. ­…

526.090. Venue of proceedings to stay judgment. — Proceedings on an injunction to stay a suit or judgment shall be had in the county where the judgment was rendered or the suit is pending, and the summons may be directed and served as summons in ordinary cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1…

526.100. Notice, to whom given. — Before an injunction shall be granted to stay any proceedings, the applicant shall give reasonable notice, in writing, to the adverse party, if within the state, or to his known agent or attorney, if he has any in the state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939…

526.110. Notice to be posted, when. — If he does not reside in the state, and has no known agent or attorney therein, notice shall be put up ten days before the application for the injunction, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the proceedings wer…

526.120. Form and service of notice. — The notice shall state the time and place of applying for the injunction, and shall be proved by the return of an officer, the evidence of a witness or the acknowledgment of the adverse party, his agent or attorney, endorsed thereon. ­­-----…

526.130. Notice, when not necessary. — When an injunction to stay proceedings is prayed in the same court where the proceedings were had, no notice of the application shall be necessary, unless prescribed by rules of court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1675) Prior revisions: 1929 § 15…

526.140. Proceedings where notice not required. — When an application shall be made for an injunction, as herein provided, and no notice of such application is required by this chapter, and no notice is in fact given, and the court, judges or judge to which the application is mad…

526.150. Extent of injunction to stay proceedings. — No injunction shall be granted to stay any judgment or proceeding, except so much of the recovery or cause of action as the plaintiff shall show himself equitably entitled to be relieved against, and so much as will cover costs…

526.160. To operate as release of errors. — Every such injunction shall operate as a release of all errors in the proceedings that are prayed to be enjoined. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1670) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1506; 1919 § 1956; 1909 § 2521

526.170. Motion to dissolve. — After the answer is filed, a motion may be made at any time in term to dissolve the injunction, and upon such motion the parties may introduce testimony to support the petition and answer, and the court shall decide the motion upon the weight of tes…

526.180. Motion, when continued. — If, after a motion for a dissolution of the injunction is made, either party will satisfy the court, by his own affidavit, or that of any other person for him, that any material specified part of the bill or answer to which he objects is untrue,…

526.190. Testimony, how taken. — The testimony to be heard on such motion shall be taken as in other cases, except the affidavits which may have been filed with such petition or answer, which may be read on the hearing of such motion; and depositions, taken to support or dissolve…

526.200. Damages upon dissolution. — Upon the dissolution of an injunction, in whole or in part, damages shall be assessed by a jury, or if neither party require a jury, by the court; but if money, or any proceedings for the collection of any money or demand, shall have been enjo…

526.210. Judgment against sureties, how enforced. — The court shall enter judgment against the obligors in the bond, according to the circumstances of the case, including the damages so assessed, and may award execution thereon, or otherwise enforce such judgment, according to th…

526.220. Violation of injunction, how punished. — If any person disobey or violate an injunction after it is served on him, the circuit court to which it is returned shall issue an attachment against him for a contempt; and unless he shall disprove or purge the contempt, the judg…