Barbara Joyce Johnson and William M. Johnson v. Blanche Johnson

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.