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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 506.270 (2026)

Proof of mailing or delivery of notice

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  506.270.  Proof of mailing or delivery of notice. — Proof of the mailing or personal delivery of said notification to such nonresident by an adult person not an officer serving same shall be made by affidavit of the party doing said acts.  All affidavits of service shall be endorsed upon or attached to the original papers to which they relate and including the returned registry receipt shall be forthwith filed with the court in which such action is filed and pending.

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(L. 1941 p. 435 § 9)

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases, 1955–1992 · leading case: State ex rel. Plaster v. Pinnell, 831 S.W.2d 949 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992).
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State ex rel. Plaster v. Pinnell, 831 S.W.2d 949 (Mo. Ct. App. 1992). · cites it 2× “240 and required by Section 506.270 to be proved by affidavits of mailing and filing of “the returned registry receipt,” was meant by the Legislature to be complete when there is neither a signed receipt nor a statement of refusal to receive to show that such mail ever reached…”
Mahony v. Witt Ice & Gas Co., 131 F. Supp. 564 (W.D. Mo. 1955). · cites it 2× “Under the present ruling, if the notice provision of the statute results in actual receipt by the defendant of a copy of the complaint as the statute contemplates (if not, he could hardly be expected to remove)-, as evidenced in the record by the required proof of service,…”
State ex rel. M. Pressner & Co. v. Scott, 387 S.W.2d 539 (Mo. 1965). · cites it 2× “” Section 506.270 provides for the filing of the registry receipt.”
Haver v. Bassett, 287 S.W.2d 342 (Mo. Ct. App. 1956). · cites it 2× “Section 506.270 prescribes the method of proof of the mailing of said notification to the nonresident defendant.”
Parker v. Bond, 330 S.W.2d 121 (Mo. 1959). · cites it 8× “On March 5, 1957, a copy of the notice (with copy of summons attached) sent to defendant Bond at Box 430, Route 1, Lees-burg, Florida, was filed, together with the attached affidavit of the chief clerk that the notice, provided for in Section 506.270, had been mailed by…”
Velten v. Daughtrey, 226 F. Supp. 91 (W.D. Mo. 1964). · cites it 6× “Now the defendant moves to quash the service of process “for the reason that the same was not served in compliance with Section 506.270, Revised Statutes 1959, in that the registry receipt and the affidavit of mailing were not filed in the Circuit Court of Lawrence County in…”
State Ex Rel. Lesliy v. Aronson, 362 S.W.2d 61 (Mo. Ct. App. 1962). · cites it 2× “A copy of the notice, with copy of summons attached, sent to defendant Bond, Box 430, Route 1, Leesburg, Florida, was filed together with affidavit of the Chief Clerk that the notice provided for in Section 506.270, had been mailed by restricted registered mail marked “Deliver…”
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