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BGE 37 II 35 ΓÇó No personal claim between limited partners for unpaid contribution
BGE 37 II 35Raccolta ufficiale del Tribunale federale (DTF) / Volume II12 giu 1908Dismissed
Baum, a limited partner, appealed against a Zurich judgment that dismissed his negative-declaration action and made provisional enforcement definitive for a bill claim. He argued that co-limited partner Meyer Spörri had failed to pay in his full contribution and that Baum therefore had a personal damages claim that could be set off. The Federal Court held that the right to demand payment of a limited partner’s contribution belongs only to the partnership, or in bankruptcy to its estate, not to individual partners. Art. 538 OR does not establish a personal claim between co-partners absent special contractual relations. The appeal was dismissed and the lower judgment confirmed.
Art. 590 ff. OR, Art. 538 OR, Art. 594 OR; question whether a limited partner may assert, against a co-limited partner personally, damages arising from non-payment of a komandite contribution and set off that claim against a bill debt. The duty to pay in the contribution is owed only to the partnership and, in bankruptcy, to the bankruptcy estate; individual partners have no own claim to enforce this obligation. Art. 538 OR, which governs liability among partners for lack of due care in partnership affairs, does not of itself confer a personal damages claim on another partner. Such a claim requires special legal relations beyond the statutory partnership relation; absent proof of such relations, set-off is excluded (consid. 3).
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