What actions within three years
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Reasonover v. St. Louis County (2006)
Most recently applied in Dennis Ryno v. City of Waynesville (January 2023)
Effective: 28 Aug 2005; (RSMo 1939 § 1015, A.L. 2005 S.B. 420 & 344); Prior revisions: 1929 § 863; 1919 § 1318; 1909 § 1890
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Within three years:
(1) An action against a sheriff, coroner or other officer, upon a liability incurred by the doing of an act in his official capacity and in virtue of his office, or by the omission of an official duty, including the nonpayment of money collected upon an execution or otherwise;
(2) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, where the action is given to the party aggrieved, or to such party and the state;
(3) An action under section 290.300.
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.