Can a plaintiff recover damages arising from the breach of a lease where the lease was breached within a single unlawful detainer action?

Despite respondent's claim to the contrary, the public policy of judicial economy and efficiency does not support allowing recovery of damages arising from the breach of the lease within a single unlawful detainer action. The purpose of unlawful detainer actions "is to expedite return of possession of real property wrongfully withheld or detained. [Citation.] To this end, '[t]he [unlawful detainer] statutes prevail over inconsistent general principles of law and procedure because of the special function of unlawful detainer actions to restore immediate possession of real property. [Citations.]'" (Hudec v. Roberston, supra, 210 Cal.App.3d at p. 1162.) Any statutory allowance of

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