Callaway v. Prettyman

Citations

• 218 Pa. 293
• 67 A. 418
• 1907 Pa. LEXIS 505

Syllabus

<p>Real estate brokers — License—Nonresident—Oral employment of broker —Conflict of laws.</p> <p>Where a resident of New Jersey comes into Pennsylvania and enters into a contract as a real estate broker to sell real estate situated in New Jersey, he is not required to have had a license under the Pennsylvania statute, to make his contract valid; nor is the contract void by reason of the New Jersey statute requiring contracts of employment of brokers for the sale of real estate to be in writing, inasmuch as the law of the place of making a contract governs as to the formalities.</p> <p>In an action by a real estate broker who is a resident of New Jersey to recover on a parol contract for commissions for the sale of real estate in New Jersey, the printed statute of New Jersey requiring such contracts to be in writing, is not admissible under the plea of non assumpsit, but only by way of special matter, after due notice, under the rule of court.</p>