Boggan v. Clark

The appellant sued the appellee for commissions due him for selling land owned by the appellee, and was denied a recovery in the court below, for the reason that he had not paid the privilege tax assessed against each real estate agent by section 46, chapter 104, Laws of 1920, which section expressly prohibits a real estate agent who fails to pay the privilege tax due by him 'as such from recovering commissions on sales made by him.

The appellant is engaged in the real estate brokerage business in Memphis, Tenn., and the' contract for the sale of the land here in question was made by letters…