Key legal question
Whether the civil appeal was admissible despite the cantonal court not stating the amount in dispute.
Extracted holding
The appeal was admissible because the minimum amount in dispute was reached through the value of the counterclaim, which excluded the main claim and exceeded the statutory threshold.
Extracted reasoning
For mutually exclusive claims, the value in dispute is determined by the contested claims before the previous instance; the main claim and counterclaim are not added. Since the counterclaim exceeded CHF 30,000, the federal appeal was open for both claims.