Court Opinion

ID: 9580250
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:03:31.112807+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:10.087433
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Black, J.
(concurring). I agree with Justice O’Hara. But there is a void here, consisting of failure of the Court to face up to its error of deviation from the practical and trouble-free provisions of former Court Rule 57 (1933), as amended in 1938. The amendment of 1938 (287 Mich xliv):
“Section 1. Appeal to the Supreme Court, as of right, shall be perfected not later than 20 days after the filing with the clerk of the court proof of service on opposing counsel of notice of the entry of the judgment, decree or order appealed from, or within 20 days after the entry of any order denying a motion for a new trial or rehearing, provided such *110motion is made within 20 days after the filing with the clerk of the court proof of service on opposing counsel of notice of the entry of the judgment, decree or order appealed from. The time herein provided is jurisdictional in appeals as of right. (Section 1 as amended April 20, 1938.)”
There is need, long since overdue, for amendment of GCR 1963, 803.1 so that the time for appeal of right is tolled when and only when proof of service is filed, as provided formerly. For want of such an amendment, our records are disclosing too frequently that parties, desiring to appeal as of right from circuit court orders and judgments are deprived in fact of - the professedly full 20-day period for filing of claim of appeal and payment of fee.
Kelly, J., concurred with Black, J.