Marx & Bensdorf, Inc. v. First Joint Stock Land Bank

Appellant, a Tennessee corporation, instituted this suit in Calhoun county by a foreign attachment in chancery against appellee, a Louisiana corporation, to recover the sum of $1,250 claimed to be due it as ■ a real estate brokerage commission. There was a trial on bill, answer, and exhibits, resulting in a decree dismissing the bill. From that décree, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

One ground of defense was that if appellee was due appellant any brokerage commission it grew out of the fact that it was earned by appellant, a foreign corporation, in the prosecution of its real estate…