Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible against the first-instance judgment as well as the cantonal appellate decision
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible insofar as it also targeted the first-instance judgment, because federal appeal lies in principle only against final cantonal appellate decisions.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 48 OG requires, as a rule, a final decision of the upper cantonal court; no exception was shown for a direct appeal against the lower court judgment.