Key legal question
Whether the Federal Court had jurisdiction over the claim for performance of the land sale contract and damages for non-performance.
Extracted holding
The Federal Court lacked jurisdiction because those claims were governed by cantonal law governing land sales and their validity and non-performance.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 231(1) OR the matter was not governed by federal law, and the damages claim was contractual rather than delictual; therefore Art. 29 OG did not confer federal jurisdiction.