Key legal question
Whether the appeal could challenge the cantonal court's treatment of the withdrawn claim and the applicable legal remedy
Extracted holding
The appeal in civil matters was admissible in principle; the request to dismiss the original first-instance claim was inadmissible because only the final cantonal judgment could be challenged.
Extracted reasoning
The case was a high-value property dispute governed by Art. 96 lit. b BGG only for arbitrary application of foreign law. However, the federal appeal in civil matters, not the subsidiary constitutional complaint, was the proper remedy. The specific request to attack the first-instance claim directly exceeded the object of the federal appeal.