{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-509.140","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 509.140","heading":"Averments as to capacity or authority of parties to sue or be sued.","body":"It shall be sufficient to aver the ultimate fact of the capacity of a party to sue or be sued or the authority of a party to sue or be sued in a representative capacity or the legal existence of a corporation or of an organized association of persons that is made a party. When a person desires to raise an issue as to the legal existence of any party or the capacity of any party to sue or be sued or the authority of a party to sue or be sued in a representative capacity, he shall do so by specific negative averment, which shall include such supporting particulars as are peculiarly within the pleader's knowledge. When a party so raises such issue, the burden of proof thereon shall be placed upon the opposite party.","path":["Title XXXV - CIVIL PROCEDURE AND LIMITATIONS","Chapter 509 - Pleadings"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=509.140","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:28Z","sha256":"4bffeef2860a7f582d550f191221be20c245e854f2287851737486dae6eb360b","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-509.130","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-509.150"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}