272.290. Special partition fences--owner may demand payment, when. - Missouri Statutes

Special partition fences--owner may demand payment, when.

272.290. Whenever the fence of any owner of real estate nowerected or constructed, or which shall hereafter be erected,constructed or rebuilt, the same being thereafter a fencedesigned to restrain swine, sheep or other animals requiringspecial fences, borders the land of another or which becomes apart of the fence bordering the land of another and is used toenclose such animals owned by the other person, on demand made bythe person owning the fence, the other person shall pay the ownerone-half of the value of so much thereof as borders his land, andupon the payment shall own an undivided half of the fence; exceptthat no owner shall be required to pay more than the amount whichwould have been required to erect, construct or rebuild a lawfulfence of four barbed wires on his one-half of the fence.

(L. 1963 p. 401 § 9, A.L. 1965 p. 395)