Case Name: First National Bank of Sedalia, Respondent, v. Cord Kruse, Appellant
Court: Missouri Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1885-05-04
Citations: 17 Mo. App. 511
Docket Number: 
Parties: First National Bank of Sedalia, Respondent, v. Cord Kruse, Appellant.
Judges: The other judges concur.
Reporter: Missouri Appeal Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 511–512

Head Matter:
First National Bank of Sedalia, Respondent, v. Cord Kruse, Appellant.
May 4, 1885.
The court affirms the judgment, because of failure of appellants to file brief or assignment of errors.
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court, Hon. John P. Strother, Judge.
Affirmed.
Geo. P. B. Jackson, for respondent.
I. The appellant claims there was a failure of consideration, and sets up the failure of a contemporaneous collateral agreement. The breach of this collateral agreement, if true, is no defence to the note. The collateral agreement could not be shown by parol, nor its breach set up in law. — Bricher y. Payne, 7 Mo. 462 ; Atwood y. Lewis, 6 Mo. 392; Walker v. Fngler, 30 Mo. 130 ; Kenshaw y. Dutten, 59 Mo. 139; Cress y. Blodget, 64 Mo. 449.
II. It ivas his own default in the payment of his note, that occasioned the breach of the collateral agreement, so that even if he had offered and been permitted to show the agreement, he should not have been permitted to avail himself of-the breach of it, asa defence to an action on the note. — Clark v. Condit, 11 Mo. 79.
III. Outside of the question of the collateral agreement, a partial failure of title to the land sold will not .constitute a.ffefence to the note; there the party must seek his remedy on the covenants of the deed. — Chase v. Weston, 12 N. Y. 413; Smith v. Sinclair, 15 Mass. 171; Talmadge v. Wallis, 25 Wend. 107.
IV. ‘"When a party takes land under a quit claim deed, it is no defence to the note given for the purchase money, that the vendor had no title. The facts of this case place the appellant in the same attitude. — QlasscocTc v. Rand, 14 Mo. 551; darter v. Harder, 18 Mo. 204.
V. But there is no defence appearing in the record.
No brief on file for appellant.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Ellison, J.
The appellant in this cause having failed to file brief or assignment of errors as required bylaw, the'judgment of the court below is affirmed.
The other judges concur.