Marken Real Estate & Management Corp. v. Adams

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in a distress for rent action awarding plaintiff *370 in damages and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a rehearing. On appeal defendant contends: (1) that the action was initiated by plaintiff through a layman and therefore was a nullity, ab initio; and (2) that section 17 of “An Act to revise the law in relation to landlord and tenant” (hereinafter the “Distress for Rent Act”) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 80, par. 17) was violated by the filing of the distress warrant and inventory nine or ten court days after defendant’s property was…