Key legal question
Whether the defendant's appeal was admissible despite the low amount in dispute.
Extracted holding
No. Only the claimed interest and costs of 601.50 CHF were at issue; no counterclaim sought a binding ruling on the conversion question. The statutory amount in dispute of 3,000 CHF was therefore not reached.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that only the pleaded interest claim counted for jurisdiction. The conversion issue was merely a prejudicial defense matter and not decided in the dispositive part. A binding determination on that question would have required a counterclaim.