Question juridique clé
Whether the fax-filed cantonal appeal was valid and whether non-entry was proper.
Solution extraite
The fax submission was formally invalid, and because the defect could have been cured within time after repeated warnings, the appellant acted in obvious abuse of rights; the non-entry stands.
Motifs extraits
The court held that fax pleadings are invalid under cantonal procedural law. Although the appeal period had not expired and correction was still possible, the appellant's representative had repeatedly been warned about the inadmissibility of fax submissions. Persisting in this form despite such warnings constituted manifest abuse of rights under Art. 2(2) ZGB, which is not protected.