Upon complaint of the party injured to any circuit or associate circuit judge of the county, such circuit or associate circuit judge shall, without delay, issue an order to three disinterested householders of the neighborhood, not of kin to either party, reciting the complaint, and requiring them to view the hedge or fence where the trespass is complained of, and take memoranda of the same, and appear before the judge on the day set for trial; and their evidence shall determine the lawfulness of such fence.

(RSMo 1939 § 14572, A.L. 1945 p. 917)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12909; 1919 § 5514; 1909 § 6457