Key legal question
Whether the abstract acknowledgment of debt of 14 January 1999 entitled the assignee to payment.
Extracted holding
The lower court validly treated the acknowledgment as abstract, but found the underlying agreement to pay commission was a sports brokerage contract that was not performed by the claimant's assignor.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court held that the cantonal findings on the parties' subjective intent and on the causal relationship were findings of fact not reviewable in reform proceedings, and that no violation of Art. 8 CC or Art. 18 CO was shown.