Whittemore v. De Pasquale

The complaint alleges that the consideration for the promise of the individual defendants to give plain*649tiff a one-third interest in the property and place him in charge of the management of the property was plaintiff’s waiver of his alleged right to receive a brokerage commission from the seller, thereby reducing the price by the amount of the commission. It appears without contradiction that, at the time, plaintiff possessed no license to act as a real estate broker and that, therefore, his waiver of a right to a commission constituted no consideration whatever for the promises sought to be…