Questão jurídica principal
How is the dispute value calculated for a claim to a recurring travel privilege and reimbursement of expenses?
Decisão extraída
The value was below the Federal Supreme Court's monetary competence threshold; the capital value of the recurring benefit had to be estimated by the probable annual use and capitalized, not by a fixed twentyfold annual amount.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 59 and Art. 54 para. 2 OG, the court looks to the claims still disputed before the last cantonal instance, excluding interest and costs. A free pass confers recurring benefits whose capital value is assessed by the likely annual saving. The court rejected equating the claim with a first-class general subscription and found an annual value of about CHF 150, yielding a total well below CHF 4,000.