C. M. Robertson v. Martie Williams and Horace E. Henderson

By this suit the plaintiffs-respondents by their bill sought to hold the defendants, Phillips, accountable to the plaintiffs for a commission when, allegedly, plaintiffs as real estate brokers had property of C. M. Robertson listed with them and the Phillips's knowing this bought the property direct from the owner and paid all cash; that plaintiffs were the procuring cause of the sale, and that the vendor Robertson is a nonresident upon whom personal service cannot be had; that the acts of the Phillips's and Robertson were to hinder and frustrate the payment of plaintiffs' claim of a brokerage commission.