Key legal question
Whether the railway liability claims were time-barred under the EHG and OR interruption rules
Extracted holding
Yes. The claims expired on 22 September 2006 and were not validly interrupted.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 14 EHG, the two-year limitation period applied. The letters of 23 January and 13 July 2006 were merely settlement offers expressly made without acknowledgment of legal duty and unprejudicially; they did not amount to a debt acknowledgment under Art. 135 Ziff. 1 OR. No effective interruption occurred before expiry.