Question juridique clé
Whether the ordinary civil courts, rather than the specialized tenancy court, had ratione materiae jurisdiction over the possessory action arising from the lease relationship.
Solution extraite
No. In the specific circumstances, the dispute clearly remained within the lease-law sphere, so the specialized tenancy courts should have been seized.
Motifs extraits
The cantonal court relied too strictly on the label of the claim as a possessory action and ignored that the parties’ relationship was predominantly a lease and that the ban on access arose while the lease termination was still being contested. Given the prior federal decision characterizing the contract as mainly a lease, it was arbitrary to deny the specialized court’s competence.