Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court acted arbitrarily by relying on facts from the criminal judgment as evidence in the civil case.
Extracted holding
No arbitrariness was shown; the civil court could rely on the criminal judgment as a file piece and assess those findings anew in civil proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
Under Vaud civil procedure, the criminal judgment may be used as evidence once pleaded and produced. The appellant did not show that decisive facts were taken over unsafely or contrary to reality.