83 Mo. App. 97 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1900
This suit is to restrain the foreclosure of a deed of trust given by plaintiffs to secure a note for $390 executed by them to defendant Motley. The transaction out of which the note arose was, to wit: In March, 1893, the son of plaintiffs bought 160 acres of land from defendant, Motley, agreeing to pay therefor, $400 in cash and to give his
The theory of the learned counsel for appellants is that plaintiffs by the execution of their note for the cash payment which their son had agreed to make upon his land trade, became both as -to him and as to his vendor mere, sureties and entitled as such to be discharged from any further obligation on their said note, by reason of the fact that the vendor of tire land, without their knowledge or consent took a reconveyance from the purchaser instead of enforcing a foreclosure of the deed of trust which had been given to secure the purchaser’s note for the deferred payment. The objection to this contention is, that the plaintiffs gave their separate note' as principal debtors for the cash payment due from their son to his vendor and secured this independent note by a deed of trust on a different tract of land which belonged to them in their own right. By this express contract on their part to become principal debtors to defendant Motley the plaintiffs waived