Case ID: mich-app_15/html/0536-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CITY OF HIGHLAND PARK v. WERCH
    Action — Complaint—Counterclaim—Summary Judgment — Appeal and Error.
    ■ if.'Trial court’s granting of defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiffs’ claim and denial of plaintiffs’ motion for (; summary judgment on defendant’s counterclaim held not to ■ be a final judgment appealable as of right, when court rule requiring express direction of trial judge for entry of final judgment is not complied with; therefore the Court of Appeals is without-jurisdiction to hear an appeal from such a judgment (GCR 1963, 518.2).
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    4 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error § 301.
    ■ Appeal from Wayne, Kaufman (Charles), J.
    Submitted Division 1 December 24, 1968, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 4,930.)
    Decided January 29, 1969.
    Reheáring denied March 25, 1969.
    Complaint by the city of Highland Park, a Michigan municipal corporation, by Highland Park General Hospital, a department of the city, against Solomon C..Werch to rescind a contract of employment: Defendant counterclaims for damages to his reputation and for breach of contract. Defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim granted. Plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment on defendant’s counterclaim denied. Plaintiff appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    
      
      George W. Moore, City Attorney, and Arthur N. Bishop, Jr., Special Assistant City Attorney, for plaintiffs.
    
      Ginn & Kramer, for defendant.
   Per Curiam.

Plaintiff appeals as of right from the orders of the trial court granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment on plaintiff’s complaint and denying plaintiff’s motion for suinmafy judgment on defendant’s counterclaim: ’ These], are not final judgments appealable as of right for the reason that GCR 1963, 518.2 was not complied with. This Court is without jurisdiction and the appeal must be dismissed. Fox v. Board of Regents of the University of Michigan (1965), 375 Mich 238; and Standard Building Products Company v. Woodland Building Company (1965), 1 Mich App 434, 437; Earp v. City of Detroit (1968), 11 Mich App 659.

Appeal dismissed.

Lesinski, C. J., and J. H. Gtllis, J., concurred.

T. G. Kavanagh, J., did not participate in the decision of this case.