Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal against the cantonal compensation judgment was admissible.
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the statutory amount in dispute was not reached and the matter was governed exclusively by cantonal law.
Extracted reasoning
The municipality had not appealed the first-instance award, so the relevant amount in dispute for the federal appeal was below CHF 3,000. In addition, the dispute concerned compensation for expropriation for a municipal road, which was not governed by the federal Expropriation Act or by the Code of Obligations; absent a special federal statute, cantonal law applied.