Questão jurídica principal
Whether the decision rejecting relief from a default judgment was a final decision appealable to the Federal Supreme Court
Decisão extraída
Yes. The refusal of relief ended the separate relief procedure, even though it opened an appeal route against the default judgment itself.
Fundamentação extraída
The relief procedure is a procedurally independent, newly opened proceeding whose sole object is the right to be retried in ordinary proceedings; its rejection definitively ends that proceeding.