Effective - 28 Aug 1939
274.270. Soliciting breach of contract — liability. — Any person, firm or corporation conducting a warehouse within this state who solicits or persuades or permits any member of any association organized hereunder to breach his marketing contract with the association by accepting or receiving such member's products for sale or for auction or for display for sale, contrary to the terms of any marketing agreement of which said person or any member of the said firm or any active officer or manager of the said corporation has knowledge or notice, shall be liable to the association aggrieved in a civil suit in the penal sum of five hundred dollars for each such offense; and such association shall be entitled to an injunction against such warehouseman to prevent further breaches and a multiplicity of actions thereon. In addition, said warehouseman shall pay to the association a reasonable attorney's fee and all costs involved in any such litigation or proceedings at law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14359)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12701
(1958) Section 274.300 made the provisions of § 390.030, RSMo, which exempts trucks operated by farmers from regulation by the public service commission, applicable to farmers' cooperative to the same extent as individual farmers. State ex rel. Smithco Transport Co. v. Pub. Serv. Comm. (A.), 316 S.W.2d 6 (Mo. en banc).
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XVII - Agriculture and Animals
Chapter 274 - Cooperative Marketing Associations
Section 274.010 - Title of law.
Section 274.020 - Definitions.
Section 274.040 - Members — qualifications — proxies — joint associations.
Section 274.050 - Membership certificate — liabilities — voting rights.
Section 274.060 - Powers of associations.
Section 274.070 - Articles of incorporation.
Section 274.080 - Articles of incorporation may be amended.
Section 274.090 - Bylaws of association.
Section 274.100 - Meetings of association.
Section 274.110 - Directors to manage affairs of association.
Section 274.120 - Officers elected by directors.
Section 274.130 - Officers and employees to give bonds.
Section 274.140 - Charges made in writing — removals, how made.
Section 274.150 - Decisions by directors referred to members, how.
Section 274.160 - Annual reports — contents.
Section 274.170 - Fee for filing incorporation papers — amendments.
Section 274.180 - Fees paid in lieu of other license or tax.
Section 274.190 - Previously organized associations may use provisions of this chapter — procedure.
Section 274.200 - Marketing contracts — provisions.
Section 274.210 - Marketing contracts — enforcement.
Section 274.220 - Membership in other corporations — functions.
Section 274.230 - Two or more associations may act jointly.
Section 274.240 - Association of other state may do business in state, when.
Section 274.250 - Use of words "nonprofit cooperative" prohibited.
Section 274.260 - Efforts to break contract a misdemeanor.
Section 274.270 - Soliciting breach of contract — liability.
Section 274.280 - Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly.
Section 274.290 - General corporation laws apply to association — exceptions.
Section 274.300 - Provisions of law in conflict not applicable — exemptions.