Key legal question
Whether the appellant could rely on the 17 December 1998 partition proposal in the federal appeal
Extracted holding
No; the argument was procedurally barred because the cantonal court’s interpretation of the pleadings and recognition of the withdrawal could not be reviewed in appeal.
Extracted reasoning
The characterization of pleadings and any procedural admission are matters of cantonal law and binding fact assessment; veracity/correctness complaints were inadmissible in the federal appeal.