534.070. Complaint and summons--court date assigned, when. - Missouri Statutes

Complaint and summons--court date assigned, when.

534.070. 1. When complaint to the circuit court of the proper countyshall be made in writing, signed by the party aggrieved, his agent orattorney, and sworn to, specifying the lands, tenements or otherpossessions so forcibly entered and detained, or unlawfully detained, andby whom and when done, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court toissue a summons directed to the sheriff or proper officer of the county,commanding him to summon the person against whom the complaint shall havebeen made to appear, at a day in such summons to be specified.

2. A court date shall be assigned at the time the summons is issued.The court date shall be for a day certain which is not more than twenty-onebusiness days from the date the summons is issued unless, at the time thecase is filed, the plaintiff or plaintiff's attorney consents in writing toa later date.

(RSMo 1939 § 2836, A.L. 1945 p. 1089, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1999 H.B. 242, A.L. 2001 S.B. 267)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 2450; 1919 § 2998; 1909 § 7660