MCL 600.7701 Appeal to circuit court.
600.7701. Appeal to circuit court.
Sec. 7701.
Any party to a judgment rendered by a justice of the peace, conceiving himself aggrieved thereby, may appeal therefrom to the circuit court for the county where the same was rendered, in the following cases:
(1) Where final judgment was rendered on an issue of law joined between the parties;
(2) Where final judgment was rendered on an issue of fact joined between the parties;
(3) Where the defendant did not appear and plead, and final judgment was rendered for the plaintiff on the merits of his claim;
(4) Where a judgment of nonsuit has been rendered.
1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963