Questão jurídica principal
Whether the lower courts committed arbitrary formalism by assessing the admissibility of the prayer for relief only from the statement of claim.
Decisão extraída
No. The court held that in this procedure the statement of claim is decisive; the meaning of the prayer may be derived from the pleading and need not be reconstructed from prior filing documents.
Fundamentação extraída
Under cantonal procedure, the prayer for relief is fixed with the statement of claim. The defendant is entitled to know precisely what is sought. If the claim is unclear and cannot be clarified from the pleading, requiring correction and then refusing to proceed is not excessive formalism.