FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER, § 7 — right of joint tenant to maintain action. Forcible detainer, being merely a possessory action, one joint tenant may sue and recover the joint property, and if one of two joint tenants executes a lease without the participation of the other, it will be deemed to be for the benefit of both, and either may maintain an action of forcible entry and detainer (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, ch. 57, par. 2; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 109.264).
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Opinion by PRESIDING JUSTICE FRIEND.
Not to be published in full. Opinion filed April 6, 1944; rehearing denied April 20, 1944.