Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 49

County Commissions and County Buildings

←49.490

Section 49.500.1

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August 28, 2015

County contracts to be inquired into on petition.

49.500. Whenever any fifty resident, solvent and responsible taxpaying

citizens of any county in the state shall have good reason to believe, and do

believe, that any contract made and entered into by the county commission,

with any person or corporation, affecting or concerning any public building,

lands, moneys or property of the county in any manner whatever, or any

extension of any such contract, was not made and entered into in good faith,

or for a just consideration, and with due regard for the best interest of the

county, or that any such contract previously entered into has not been

carried out by the parties thereto in good faith and according to the terms

of any such contract, they may bring a suit in the circuit court of any such

county, praying that the matter may be inquired into, and thereupon the

circuit court shall make a full investigation of the matters alleged, and

shall have power to set aside, reform or cause to be enforced any such

contract, or any extension of any such contract, as the court shall deem best

under the law and the facts. Should the petitioners fail to sustain their

petition, they shall pay the costs; and all such proceedings shall be

governed by the law relating to civil practice in circuit courts. The said

petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of

said county; and thereafter the death, removal or disability of any one or

more of such petitioners or plaintiffs shall not abate or affect the said

suit.



(RSMo 1939 § 13769, A.L. 1983 S.B. 219)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 12110; 1919 § 9508; 1909 § 3729



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