Key legal question
Whether the canton court arbitrarily found that the French group had no interest in buying the hotel in spring 1998
Extracted holding
No. The court reasonably weighed the February 1998 letter together with witness evidence and could find the group was not interested in buying on the proposed terms.
Extracted reasoning
The letter did not show genuine purchase interest; testimony showed the group sought financing/management rather than acquisition, and the price gap made the deal unacceptable.