Questione giuridica chiave
Whether rent receipts credited to the manager's account could be set off against the owner's claim for transfer of those rents.
Decisione estratta
No. The rent receipts belonged to the owner; payments of third-party invoices from the rent account were not the manager's claims and therefore could not be set off.
Motivazione estratta
Under the management contract, all receipts and payments had to run through the rent account. The owner was creditor for the rent receipts and debtor for the third-party invoices. Set-off under Art. 120 OR requires reciprocal claims between the same parties, which was lacking for those outgoing payments.