Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible despite the first-instance award being only partly challenged below.
Extracted holding
The appeal was admissible because the disputed amount before the last cantonal instance exceeded CHF 2,000.
Extracted reasoning
The question whether the plaintiff could, after the defendants’ appeal, revive his full claim before the cantonal court was one of cantonal procedure and not reviewable; the federal court accepted the cantonal court’s implicit affirmative resolution and found the value threshold met.