¶1This is an appeal, prosecuted as of right, by plaintiff, from an order setting aside a default and judgment.
¶2The record shows that application .by plaintiff for leave to appeal was denied by this court. Keview, if any, is by mandamus and not by appeal.
¶3*643Counsel invokes the statute, 3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 15491, and Court Rules Nos. 55 and 60 (1931). The statute relates to final judgments, and plaintiff has no judgment, but* seeks direction, by this court, to have his judgment reinstated. The mentioned rules, while requiring mandamus to be termed an appeal, do not change the law that it is an original writ, and that it does not issue without application and allowance.
¶4Leave to prosecute an appeal in the nature of mandamus was necessary and was not obtained. We, therefore, sua sponte, dismiss the appeal.
¶5Defendant, not having filed a brief at the time this opinion was written, will not recover costs.