Mo. Rev. Stat. § 521.780: Action on bond.

If the claimant shall be injured or damaged in consequence of any levy or sale under or by virtue of such execution or attachment, and shall in good faith be the owner of the interest claimed by him in the property levied on or sold as aforesaid, he, the said claimant, may bring a civil action on such bond in the name of the state, to his own use, against such plaintiff and his sureties, or any or either of them, in the usual manner of bringing actions on penal bonds or may proceed thereon by motion in open court, first giving to the parties proceeded against in said bond twenty days' notice of such motion.