Firpo v. Murphy

Action to recover a broker’s commission. The complaint recites that defendants became indebted to plaintiff’s assignors, Rucker & Tarp, a copartnership, in the sum of $770 for and as a commission for the securing of a lease of a certain apartment house.

The complaint was demurred to upon the ground that it did not sufficiently appear therefrom whether at the time the alleged cause of action arose, plaintiff’s assignor or its salesman, who handled the transaction, were duly licensed under and pursuant to the provisions of the act of the legislature regulating such brokers and salesmen, approved…