Rule 85.16.Post-Trial Procedure--Appeal.

Attachment is a special provisional remedy layered onto a civil action, but Rule 85.16 makes clear it does not create a separate track for what happens after trial. Post-trial procedure — the steps taken once a verdict or judgment has been reached, such as post-trial motions — proceeds the same way whether or not an attachment was involved. The same is true on appeal: a case that included a writ of attachment is reviewed under the same appellate rules as any other civil case.

This rule exists to close a door, not open one. It forecloses any argument that attachment cases need special post-judgment or appellate procedures because property was seized before judgment. Instead, whatever findings on the attachment made their way into the final judgment under Rule 85.15 travel with the rest of the case through the ordinary post-trial and appellate process.

Read alongside Rule 85.17, which addresses how long bonds stay in force through any appeal, Rule 85.16 confirms that an attachment does not fork the case into two separate procedural paths. The underlying claim and any attachment issues rise or fall together, under the same rules that govern every other Missouri civil case.