Chevron Chemical Co. v. Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte & Touche (Deloitte), a Delaware partnership, appeals from a judgment granting Chevron Chemical Company (Chevron) the sum of $1,646,106 in damages, plus double costs1 and disbursements of the action. The judgment from which Deloitte. appeals is based upon an order entered January 18, 1991, (1) granting judgment notwithstanding the verdict on a claim of negligent misrepresentation, (2) changing the jury's answer to a special verdict question on a claim of intentional misrepresentation to favor Chevron rather than Deloitte, and (3) setting the dollar amount of damages to Chevron in the…