Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal was directed against a final or interlocutory decision
Decisão extraída
The challenged decision was interlocutory because the damages claim remained pending in the lower court.
Fundamentação extraída
A final decision requires termination of the proceedings and a ruling on the merits, or a refusal on a ground definitively barring reassertion. Here, only part of the res judicata objection was rejected, so the case continued on the remaining monetary claim.