Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appeal was wrongly treated as inadmissible because the court fee advance was considered late.
Extracted holding
The advance was timely because the decisive moment is the debit from the payer's Swiss post or bank account on the last day of the deadline, and the appellant proved such debit occurred on 2013-02-25.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 143(3) ZPO, payment to the court is timely if the amount is debited from a Swiss post or bank account by the last day of the period. The lower court relied only on the crediting/book-entry date at the court, which is not decisive. Since the appellant produced a bank statement and transaction confirmation showing valuation date 2013-02-25, the proof burden was met.