Key legal question
Whether Art. 8 ZGB was violated by misallocating the burden of proof regarding the loan agreement.
Extracted holding
No. The lower courts placed the burden of proof on the plaintiff and found the loan proven from the documents.
Extracted reasoning
Art. 8 ZGB is not infringed when the court, after assessing the evidence, is convinced that a fact has been proven; burden of proof becomes irrelevant once the fact is established by free assessment of evidence.