Grudberg v. Midvale Realty Co.

Plaintiff, a member of this bar, sued, and has obtained judgment against defendant, for a commission upon the sale- of a parcel of realty. The evidence warrants findings that plaintiff was employed by defendant as a broker, and that he was the procuring cause of the sale to the buyer, one Licausi. Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that the maxim ex turpi causa non oritur actio should bar recovery. In 1917 plaintiff, acting *559as an attorney, represented the uncle of Licausi in a transaction that resulted in a lease, by defendant, to Licausi’s uncle, of the premises here in question. In some…