Paris v. Cooper

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. The note in question was given by the Georgia defendant, incident to his purchase of Florida real estate, as a part of the agreed *213consideration in his Georgia contract with the plaintiff, a Georgia broker who had not complied with the Florida licensing law. The general rule is that if a broker is licensed according to the laws of the state where his contract of employment is made he may recover a commission notwithstanding he is not licensed according to the law of the situs of the property. 159 ALR, Anno., pp. 266, 274 (II-5). That such rule is applicable in this…