Mo. Rev. Stat. » Chapter 228
Missouri Revised Statutes

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 228.345 (2026)

Maximum width

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MO-REVrevisor.mo.gov Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

  228.345.  Maximum width — contents of petition. — The proposed private road as established or widened shall not exceed forty feet in width and shall be situated so as to do as little damage or injury and cause as little inconvenience as practicable to the owner or owners of the real property over which the private road shall pass.  The petition shall contain a description of the location of the proposed road, including the width and points of beginning and ending.

­­--------

(L. 1991 S.B. 138 § 2, A.L. 1993 S.B. 236)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1998–2023 · leading case: Beery v. Shinkle, 193 S.W.3d 435 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Beery v. Shinkle, 193 S.W.3d 435 (Mo. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 3× “” § 228.345. The “location chosen for the road must be one that is reasonable and practical.”
Short v. S. Union Co., 372 S.W.3d 520 (Mo. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 2× “; see also section 228.345 (providing that a proposed private road “shall not exceed forty feet in width and shall be situated so as to do as little damage or injury and cause as little inconvenience as practicable to the owner or owners of the real property over which the…”
Hamai v. Witthaus, 965 S.W.2d 379 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 6× “Section 228.345 RSMo. Weighed against that requirement, the location chosen for the private road must be one that is reasonable and practical.”
Moss Springs Cemetery Ass'n v. Johannes, 970 S.W.2d 372 (Mo. Ct. App. 1998). · cites it 3× “” Section 228.345, RSMo 1994. “In an action for a private road pursuant to See.”
Anderson v. Mantel, 171 S.W.3d 774 (Mo. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 3× “” We shall now discuss what is designated Defendant’s Point V, the issue of whether the designation of the West Route is a misapplication of law for failure to comply with the requirements of sections 228.345 and 228.352. 5 Defendant contends *782 that, although the West Route…”
Anderson v. Mantel, 49 S.W.3d 760 (Mo. Ct. App. 2001). “; see § 228.345. “Weighed against that requirement, the location chosen for the private road must be one that is reasonable and practical.”
Orin Wallace, & Donna Wallace v. Michael P. Byrne (Mo. Ct. App. 2023). · cites it 4× “Appellant presumably means to cite Section 228.345, as cited in Hamai, 965 S.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.