Key legal question
Whether the creditor can claim substitute value (stellvertretendes Commodum) for insurance proceeds in a paulian action under Art. 288 and 291 SchKG.
Extracted holding
No. The substitute value claim requires a later supervening impossibility of restitution; here the asset had already been destroyed before the avoidance claim arose, so the impossibility was initial and no substitute value had to be transferred.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the subsidiary money claim under Art. 291 SchKG is based on fault for the loss of the restitutable object. The doctrine of substitute value under Art. 119 OR applies only where impossibility arises after the obligation is created. Because the claim against the daughter could arise only once the provisional loss certificate was issued, and by then the car had already been destroyed without her fault, there was no later impossibility and thus no entitlement to the insurance proceeds.