JAMES OGENYI OGEBE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The case of the Plaintiffs/Respondents is that the 2nd Defendant contracted them to scout for possible buyers of her landed property situate at Ifite-Awka in Awka South Local Government of Anambra State in which they agreed for a payment of 10% of the purchase price of the property as - their agency commission.
The Plaintiffs/Respondents said that they got in touch with one Raphael Obiorah Okeke who eventually purchased the said property at the purchase price of Six million, Seven hundred thousand Naira (N6,7000,000.00). They alleged that at the end of the transaction, the 2nd Defendant refused to pay to them their agency commission and when they confronted her, she told them that she had since paid over their money to the 1st Defendant/Appellant for onward payment to them. They also alleged that the 1st Defendant/Appellant and 3rd Defendant have convinced to with-hold their agency commission of N670,000.00 and have refused…