Key legal question
Whether the Eidgenössische Schätzungskommission had jurisdiction to hear compensation claims from the cableway upgrade.
Extracted holding
No. The cableway operator did not possess federal expropriation powers, so the Expropriation Act did not confer jurisdiction on the commission.
Extracted reasoning
An eidgenössische concession is not enough; expropriation power requires an express statutory basis. None existed in the cableway regulations or the cited railway legislation.