Every executor or administrator may sell at private or public sale all goods and chattels of the decedent that are liable to perish, be consumed or rendered worse by the keeping upon obtaining order of the court so to do. Approval of the court of a sale without prior order validates the sale.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 473.483
Sales of perishable property
Effective: 28 Aug 1955; (RSMo 1939 § 111, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 176); Prior revisions: 1929 § 112; 1919 § 111; 1909 § 121
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.