Yale Tavern, Inc. v. Cosmopolitan National Bank

How courts have described this case

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• “Matters not germane to the issue of possession may not be litigated in 8 No. 1-22-0772 a forcible entry and detainer action”
• “Matters not germane to the issue of possession may not be litigated in a forcible entry and detainer action;”
• “The purpose of the statute is to quickly restore an aggrieved party to possession of his land and to prevent breaches of the peace caused by the common law method of regaining possession of property through, self-help.”
• Eviction Act prohibits self- help through force, such as changing locks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).