Terms Used In Missouri Laws 237.170

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Every ferryman failing to give such due attention shall, for every offense, forfeit five dollars, and for failure to keep such boat in good repair, shall forfeit thirty dollars to the county where the ferry is situated; and he shall be liable for all damages that any person may sustain thereby, to be recovered by civil action in any court having jurisdiction.

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