Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the first federal appeal against the Civil Court judgment was admissible despite unexhausted cantonal remedies on factual/arbitrariness complaints.
Decisione estratta
Those complaints were inadmissible before the Federal Supreme Court because they had to be raised first in the cantonal nullity appeal.
Motivazione estratta
Under Vaud procedure, arbitrariness in fact-finding and essential procedural violations were reviewable in the cantonal nullity remedy; the federal appeal could not bypass that stage.