Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible despite containing only a request to annul the cantonal judgment and no request on the merits.
Extracted holding
No. A federal appeal must, as a rule, contain conclusions on the merits unless the Federal Supreme Court could only remand the case; that exception did not apply here.
Extracted reasoning
The appellant sought only annulment. If the appeal were upheld, the court could in principle decide the merits itself, so the absence of substantive conclusions rendered the appeal inadmissible.