Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 526 · 20 active provisions
1. Injunctions may be granted by a circuit judge or an associate circuit judge. 2. In any action in which the state or a statewide official is preliminarily enjoined from implementing, enforcing, or otherwise effectuating any provision of the Constitution of Missouri, any Missouri statute, or any Missouri regulation, t…
The remedy by writ of injunction or prohibition shall exist in all cases where a cloud would be put on the title of real estate being sold under an execution against a person, partnership or corporation having no interest in such real estate subject to execution at the time of sale, or an irreparable injury to real or…
Before any party shall be entitled to the injunction herein provided, he shall have filed in the circuit court, or in the office of the clerk thereof, having jurisdiction of the suit, his petition setting forth his cause of action; and when the injunction shall be granted by the circuit judge, it shall be in writing, s…
When it shall appear by the petition that the plaintiff is entitled to the relief demanded, and such relief, or any part thereof, consists, in restraining the commission or continuance of some act of the defendant, the commission or continuance of which, during the litigation, would produce injury to the plaintiff, or…
No injunction, unless on final hearing or judgment, shall issue in any case, except in suits instituted by the state in its own behalf, until the plaintiff, or some responsible person for him, shall have executed a bond with sufficient surety or sureties to the other party, in such sum as the court or judge shall deem…
Such bond shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county to which the injunction is returnable, and the bond may be entered into before said clerk, if the court or judge granting the injunction shall first approve of the security.
Proceedings on an injunction to stay a suit or judgment shall be had in the county where the judgment was rendered or the suit is pending, and the summons may be directed and served as summons in ordinary cases.
Before an injunction shall be granted to stay any proceedings, the applicant shall give reasonable notice, in writing, to the adverse party, if within the state, or to his known agent or attorney, if he has any in the state.
If he does not reside in the state, and has no known agent or attorney therein, notice shall be put up ten days before the application for the injunction, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county where the proceedings were had.
The notice shall state the time and place of applying for the injunction, and shall be proved by the return of an officer, the evidence of a witness or the acknowledgment of the adverse party, his agent or attorney, endorsed thereon.
When an injunction to stay proceedings is prayed in the same court where the proceedings were had, no notice of the application shall be necessary, unless prescribed by rules of court.
When an application shall be made for an injunction, as herein provided, and no notice of such application is required by this chapter, and no notice is in fact given, and the court, judges or judge to which the application is made shall deem it proper that the defendant, or any of several defendants, should be heard b…
No injunction shall be granted to stay any judgment or proceeding, except so much of the recovery or cause of action as the plaintiff shall show himself equitably entitled to be relieved against, and so much as will cover costs.
Every such injunction shall operate as a release of all errors in the proceedings that are prayed to be enjoined.
After the answer is filed, a motion may be made at any time in term to dissolve the injunction, and upon such motion the parties may introduce testimony to support the petition and answer, and the court shall decide the motion upon the weight of testimony, without being bound to take the answer as true.
If, after a motion for a dissolution of the injunction is made, either party will satisfy the court, by his own affidavit, or that of any other person for him, that any material specified part of the bill or answer to which he objects is untrue, that he has witnesses whose testimony he believes he can procure within a…
The testimony to be heard on such motion shall be taken as in other cases, except the affidavits which may have been filed with such petition or answer, which may be read on the hearing of such motion; and depositions, taken to support or dissolve an injunction, may be read on the final trial or other proceedings in su…
Upon the dissolution of an injunction, in whole or in part, damages shall be assessed by a jury, or if neither party require a jury, by the court; but if money, or any proceedings for the collection of any money or demand, shall have been enjoined, the damages thereon shall not exceed ten percent on the amount released…
The court shall enter judgment against the obligors in the bond, according to the circumstances of the case, including the damages so assessed, and may award execution thereon, or otherwise enforce such judgment, according to the rules and practice of the court.
If any person disobey or violate an injunction after it is served on him, the circuit court to which it is returned shall issue an attachment against him for a contempt; and unless he shall disprove or purge the contempt, the judge may commit him to jail until the sitting of the court in which the injunction is pending…