Key legal question
Whether the lower court arbitrarily applied Art. 736 CC and the rules on allegation and burden of proof by finding the servitude had lost all utility
Extracted holding
The appeal court applied the burden of allegation and proof arbitrarily by requiring the servitude beneficiary to plead concrete future utility, whereas only a duty to cooperate in evidence existed.
Extracted reasoning
Under Art. 736 CC and Art. 8 CC, the owner of the burdened land must prove loss of utility; the beneficiary must cooperate in evidence, but does not bear the burden of allegation. The cantonal court wrongly treated a late allegation as insufficient and thereby shifted the allegation burden.