389.560. Time allowed for removing grain from cars. - Missouri Statutes

Time allowed for removing grain from cars.

389.560. Any consignee or person entitled to receive thedelivery of grain transported in bulk by any railroad shall haveforty-eight hours, free of expense, after actual notice ofarrival by the corporation to the consignee, in which to removethe same from the cars of such railroad corporation if he shalldesire to receive it from the cars on the track, whichforty-eight hours shall be held to embrace such time as the carcontaining such property is placed and kept by such corporationin a convenient and proper place for unloading. And it shall notbe held to have been placed in a proper place for unloadingunless it can be reached by the consignee or person entitled toreceive it, with teams or other suitable means for removing theproperty from the car, and reasonably convenient to the depot ofsuch railroad corporation at which it is accustomed to receiveand unload merchandise consigned to that station or place.Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to authorize thechanging of any consignment of grain except as to the place atwhich it is to be delivered or unloaded, nor shall such change ofconsignment in any degree affect the ownership or control ofproperty in any other way.

(RSMo 1939 § 5227)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 4770; 1919 § 9958; 1909 § 3155