Sternberg v. Strauss

The appellant sued to recover commissions as a real estate broker. He had no license but he obtained one some days after his services were rendered. His excuse is that on the first day of May, when he ought to have taken out his license, he went for it; there were about two hundred people there; he waited until four o’clock, p. m.; could not get his license and went off.

Three or four days later he went again; it was just the same and so he thought to himself he would wait. The head man of the license department said to him “you have got plenty of time. If you don’t take it out four or five…