521.040. Attachments may issue from circuit courts for a sumless than fifty dollars and not less than five dollars, when, inaddition to the affidavit herein required, it shall be stated bythe affiant that the defendant has not, to affiant's knowledge,any goods, chattels, effects or credits, within the state, liableto attachment issued by an associate circuit judge. And in allcases where such attachment shall have issued, such court shallhave and retain jurisdiction of the entire cause, and if theattachment is for any reason dissolved, such court may proceed totry the cause on its merits, the same as in cases of attachmentsfor sums of fifty dollars or more.
(RSMo 1939 § 1441, A.L. 1945 p. 648)Prior revisions: 1929 § 1277; 1919 § 1728; 1909 § 2297