Key legal question
Whether Art. 61 BV was violated by treating the Appenzell Innerrhoden judgment as enforceable in Appenzell Ausserrhoden.
Extracted holding
No. The claim was not an application to enforce the foreign judgment, but an ordinary action in which the judgment was invoked only as proof.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 61 BV is implicated only where enforcement of a final civil judgment is denied; if enforcement is granted or a prior judgment is merely used evidentially in new proceedings, a violation of Art. 61 BV is not established.