Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court or federal expropriation authorities were competent to hear the compensation claim.
Decisão extraída
The claim was not an expropriation claim but a tort claim for alleged unlawful property damage by contractors; therefore the cantonal courts were exclusively competent.
Fundamentação extraída
Federal jurisdiction exists only for compensation arising from temporary rights taken or other interference with private rights in the framework of a public work under the expropriation law. Here the claim was directed against the construction contractors for alleged negligent damage, not against the railway undertaking as an expropriation matter.