Beebe v. Kistler

This is an action to recover a broker’s commission for a ■ sale of real property. Judgment went for plaintiff and the defendant appeals.

An act of the legislature passed in 1919 (Stats. 1919, p. 1252) created a state real estate department and provides for the issuance thereby of licenses to real estate brokers and real estate salesmen. Section 20 of the enactment denies to any broker or salesman the right to bring or maintain any action for the collection of commissions for sales of real property without alleging that he was duly licensed under the law at the time his cause of action arose.…