Key legal question
Whether a limited partner has a personal damages claim against a co-limited partner for failure to pay in the promised contribution, allowing set-off against a bill claim.
Extracted holding
No. The duty to pay in a limited partnership contribution is owed only to the partnership, not personally to individual partners; absent special contractual relations, a co-limited partner has no personal damages claim.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 590 ff. OR, the right to demand payment of a limited partner's contribution belongs only to the partnership or its bankruptcy estate. Art. 538 OR does not create, by itself, a personal claim between individual partners; such a claim requires special legal relations, which were neither shown nor alleged.