Peoria Housing Authority v. Sanders

54 Ill.2d 478 (1973)

298 N.E.2d 173

PEORIA HOUSING AUTHORITY, Appellee,

v.

NORMA SANDERS, Appellant.

No. 44976.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 25, 1973.

WHITNEY D. HARDY, Peoria Legal Aid Society, of Peoria, for appellant.

WILSON C. WASHKUHN, of GASKINS & SUTKOWSKI ASSOC., of Peoria, for appellee.

Reversed and remanded.

This action under the Forcible Entry and Detainer Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 57, par. 1 et seq.) was brought by the plaintiff, Peoria Housing Authority, to recover possession of an apartment which it had leased to the defendant, Norma Sanders. The statutory five-day…