411.331. Grain may be withheld from going into terminal warehouse--when--how--penalties. - Missouri Statutes

Grain may be withheld from going into terminalwarehouse--when--how--penalties.

411.331. In case any owner or consignee of grain to aterminal warehouse shall be dissatisfied with the inspection orgrade of any lot of grain received by rail or shall from anycause desire to receive his property without its passing intostore, he shall be at liberty to have the same withheld fromgoing into the terminal warehouse, whether the property may havepreviously been consigned to such terminal public warehouse ornot, by giving proper notice prior to unloading to the person orcorporation in whose possession it may be at the time of givingsuch notice; and the grain shall be withheld from going intostorage and be delivered to the owner subject only to such propercharges including any advanced draft as may be a lien upon itprior to the notice, the grain in railroad cars to be removedtherefrom by the owner or consignor within twenty-four hoursafter the notice has been given to the railroad company having itin its possession; provided, the railroad company place the samein a proper and convenient place for unloading; and any person orcorporation refusing to allow the owner or consignor to receivehis grain shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall beliable to pay the owner or consignor damages for any conversion.Notice that grain is not to be delivered into store may also begiven to the proprietor of any terminal warehouse into which itwould otherwise have been delivered, and if after the notice itbe taken into store in the terminal warehouse, the proprietor ofthe terminal warehouse shall be liable to the owner of the grainfor conversion.

(L. 1965 p. 606)