REVISED JUDICATURE ACT OF 1961 (EXCERPT)
Act 236 of 1961

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.


History: 1961, Act 236, Eff. Jan. 1, 1963