Key legal question
Whether the third-party notice against A. was admissible under Geneva procedure despite being filed after prior procedural steps.
Extracted holding
The request was inadmissible because it was made too late and only after the defendants had first litigated other incident motions instead of raising the impleader request together with them.
Extracted reasoning
Although Art. 104 al. 1 LPC gen. could cover the recourse claim in principle, Art. 105 let. a LPC gen. allows separate judgment of the main claim unless impleader was requested from the outset. The court held that the purpose of the rule is to prevent dilatory use of impleader, and the appellant had no justification for waiting until after the 18 February 2010 judgment.