Pelavin v. Misner

The question here presented is: May a landlord, if rent is unpaid and the tenant is guilty of permitting an improper use of the premises, visit the premises leased, request the wife of the tenant in charge of the premises to step outside of the building to show a pretended purchaser where repairs are needed, then lock the door and when the woman immediately enters by opening another door with a latch key, forcibly prevent her from going upstairs and thereby obtain a possession recognized as valid and to be maintained under injunctive process from a court of equity? I think not. Such an…