Question juridique clé
Whether the defendant was unjustly enriched by the redirected down payments
Solution extraite
Yes. The buyers paid CHF 60,000 to the defendant as a payment point for the plaintiff, but the defendant had no legal claim to retain the money; the plaintiff was correspondingly impoverished without legal cause.
Motifs extraits
The reservations did not validly assign any claim to the defendant and did not constitute an effective instruction under Art. 466 OR authorizing the defendant to demand payment in its own name. The payments therefore lacked a legal basis and fell under unjust enrichment.