Court Opinion

ID: 9687834
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 16:51:05.266669+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:32.235556
License: Public Domain

Boslaugh, J.,
concurring.
With respect to the matter of self-help relating to the repossession of real estate, the following statement from the opinion of Mr. Justice Marshall in Pernell v. Southall Realty, decided April 24, 1974 (42 Law Week 4595), seems appropriate: “Some delay, of course, is inherent in any fair-minded system of justice. A landlord-tenant dispute, like any other lawsuit, cannot be resolved with due process of law unless both parties have had a fair opportunity to present their cases. Our courts were never intended to serve as rubber stamps for landlords seeking to evict their tenants, but rather to see that justice be done before a man is evicted from his home.”