County or municipally owned property exempt, when.

513.455. All courthouses, jails, clerks' offices and otherbuildings owned by any county or municipality, and the lots onwhich they stand, and all burial grounds, shall be exempt fromattachment and execution.

(RSMo 1939 § 1325)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1161; 1919 § 1612; 1909 § 2181

(1972) A mechanic's lien does not attach to buildings and property owned by a municipality and used for the benefit of the public. Union Reddi-Mix Co. v. Specialty Concrete Contr. (A.), 476 S.W.2d 160.