Rowntree v. Rice

BARROW, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a take-nothing summary judgment. Appellants brought this suit against John W. Rice and wife, Beryl Lowe Rice, vendors of a home purchased by appellants for the sum of $78,500, M. M. Pharr and wife, Helen Pharr, d/b/a Pharr Realtors, who were the real estate agents of vendors, Mrs. Juanita Starcke, a real estate agent who assisted appellants in locating this home and divided the agent’s commission with Pharr Realtors, and John M. Bayne, Esq., an attorney employed by appellants to represent them in the closing of this transaction on February 5, 1965.

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