Questão jurídica principal
Whether the challenge could also be directed against the first-instance judgment and the request for dismissal of the claim could be entertained
Decisão extraída
The appeal could not be directed against the first-instance judgment, and the request to dismiss the claim was inadmissible because the state-law appeal was only available against the final cantonal decision and was essentially cassatory.
Fundamentação extraída
The lower-court judgment was not an exceptional directly reviewable decision, and the federal appeal was in principle limited to annulment, not substitution of the merits.