Aldis

At the time of the transaction both plaintiff and defendant were real estate brokers. The former seeks to recover from defendant a broker’s commission upon an oral agreement for services rendered in effecting a sale of certain real estate, which agreement, it is alleged, was made with defendant as the agent and broker of Frances D. Kraemer and Frank White, each of whom, with defendant, owned an undivided one-third interest in the property sold. It is alleged in the complaint “that in offering said property for sale the defendant was acting as the, agent of said Frances D. Kraemer and of said Frank White as to the interest held by each of them in said property as aforesaid; that as such agent for said Frances D. Kraemer and said Frank White defendant entered into an oral agreement with plaintiff, wherein and whereby the defendant agreed to pay plaintiff a reasonable commission if plaintiff would effect a sale of the property hereinbefore described.” It is further alleged that plaintiff effected a sale thereof, by reason whereof and by reason,of said agreement there became due to him from the defendant a reasonable commission upon the price for which the property was…