Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible as a civil appeal or only as subsidiary constitutional complaint
Extracted holding
Because only about CHF 8,000 was in dispute before the cantonal court, the ordinary civil appeal was unavailable; the filing was treated as a subsidiary constitutional complaint.
Extracted reasoning
The relevant value in dispute is the amount contested before the last cantonal instance; the statutory threshold of Art. 74(1)(b) BGG was not reached.