511.490. Clerk--failure to perform duty--penalty. - Missouri Statutes

Clerk--failure to perform duty--penalty.

511.490. Any clerk of a court who shall refuse or neglect,after tender of his fees for the same, to file and record suchtranscript and docket such judgment or decree, as in sections511.440 to 511.480 directed, shall be liable on his official bondto any person damaged by reason of such refusal or neglect, indouble the amount of damages sustained.

(RSMo 1939 § 1311)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1147; 1919 § 1598; 1909 § 2167