Question juridique clé
Whether the public-law appeal was admissible given the availability of a federal appeal on the merits, including jurisdictional issues.
Solution extraite
The appeal could only be used subsidiarily; to the extent the complaints concerned the application of Articles 23 CC and 74 CO, they were inadmissible.
Motifs extraits
Under Art. 84(2) OJ, public-law recourse is excluded where the point can be raised by another remedy, here the appeal in reform, which was open in a pecuniary civil dispute also covering venue jurisdiction questions.