441.290. Landlord's lien for money or supplies furnished tenant.
Landlord's lien for money or supplies furnished tenant.
441.290. Every landlord shall have a superior lien, againstwhich the tenant shall not be entitled to any exemption, upon thewhole crop of the tenant raised upon the leased or rentedpremises, to reimburse the landlord for money or suppliesfurnished to the tenant to enable him to raise and harvest thecrops or to subsist while carrying out his contract of tenancy,but the lien of the landlord shall not continue for more than onehundred and twenty days after the expiration of the tenancy, and,if the property upon which there is a lien be removed from theleased premises and not returned, the landlord shall have asuperior lien upon the property so removed for fifteen days fromthe date of this removal, and may enforce his lien against theproperty wherever found.
(RSMo 1939 § 2977)Prior revision: 1929 § 2590
(1968) Section 441.300, RSMo, does not prescribe an exclusive method of enforcement of the lien created by this section. Oliver v. Fisher (A.), 430 S.W.2d 611.