Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court acted arbitrarily by holding that the CHF 10,000 claim was covered by the 1 May 1996 settlement/debt acknowledgment
Extracted holding
The cantonal court's view was contradictory and ignored the Federal Court's earlier clarification that the CHF 10,000 claim was not meant to be included in the saldobekräftigung.
Extracted reasoning
The company was not a party to the 1 May 1996 acknowledgment and the parties to that document could not dispose of its claim; the cantonal court nevertheless treated the claim as settled despite the prior federal ruling.