Winn v. Wright

This is an action for the recovery of real estate commissions, successfully defended below upon the ground that the broker was not licensed as required by Chapter 182, Acts of 1919, Code, Section 1712 et seq. The plaintiff has appealed and, admitting that he was not a licensed real estate broker, insists that he is entitled to recover under the single transaction rule recognized and followed in Trentham v. Moore, 111 Tenn. 346, 76 S. W. 904; Wender v. Lobertini, 151 Tenn. 476, 477, 267 S. W. 367; Walker v. Brownsville Cotton, etc., Co., 4 Tenn. App. 104.

For defendant it is insisted that the…