Question juridique clé
Whether the cantonal court’s discretionary allocation of procedural costs was arbitrary under Art. 9 BV.
Solution extraite
No arbitrariness was shown; the court could treat both parties as contributing to the mootness and consider their conduct when apportioning costs.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Supreme Court held that cost allocation under cantonal law may be based on discretion when a case becomes moot. It was not unreasonable to consider the husband the main cause and the wife a co-cause of the changed procedural situation, given the timing of the divorce request and the parties’ conduct.