Key legal question
Whether the alleged CHF 10,000 payment to A. AG counted as loan repayment under the parties’ agreement and Art. 74 OR.
Extracted holding
The payment could not be treated as performance on the agreed place and terms of payment on the basis of the record alone; the borrower’s objection and the later correspondence made the issue decisive and further fact-finding was required.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the borrower could not simply rely on the July 19 email once the lender later demanded full payment to the Credit Suisse account; however, the lower court had not sufficiently clarified the factual question whether the alleged payment occurred and what legal effect it had.