Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court violated the ban on excessive formalism by refusing to hear the appeal for lack of a clear appeal request.
Extracted holding
No. In the accelerated procedure, requiring a clear prayer for relief was justified, and the appellant's filing did not make the intended request sufficiently certain.
Extracted reasoning
A mere statement that the first-instance judgment was attacked 'in full' did not clearly show whether the appellant maintained all prior requests or only sought dismissal of the claim. The strict application of the appeal-form requirements therefore did not become a self-purpose.