537.400. Double damages for willful fires.
Double damages for willful fires.
537.400. If any person shall willfully set on fire anywoods, marshes or prairies whether his own or not, so as therebyto occasion any damage to any other person, such person shallmake satisfaction in double damages to the party injured, to berecovered by civil action.
(RSMo 1939 § 3660)Prior revisions: 1929 § 3270; 1919 § 4225; 1909 § 5433