Webb v. Rachmil

Citations

• 75 Pa. Super. 193
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 247

Syllabus

<p>Brokers — Real estate brokers — Transaction of business — License —Failure to take out license — Recovery of commissions — Act of May 7, 1907, P. L. 175.</p> <p>The Act of May 7, 1907, P. L. 175, does not prohibit a person whose business is not that of a broker from receiving compensation for services rendered in single transactions of buying or selling real estate or other property for another.</p> <p>If, however, a person is actually engaged as a broker, the procuring of a license is a condition precedent for the lawful transaction of business. In such case it is necessary that he should have procured such a license before he can recover compensation for services rendered. Whether or not under the facts of a particular ease a person was actually engaged in the business of a real estate broker at the time he rendered the services, for which compensation was demanded, is a question for the jury.</p>