Question juridique clé
Whether the broker was entitled to commission under the brokerage agreement
Solution extraite
The broker had not validly established an essential contractual element for calculating the commission, namely the salary of the hired person, so the claim failed.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Supreme Court held that, because the salary was not regularly pleaded under the applicable cantonal procedure, the claimant could not rely on evidence to substitute for that allegation; without a proper pleading, Article 8 CC on burden of proof did not help.