Supreme Court of Delaware

Crown Bank v. BCD Associates, LLC

February 14, 2023

Summary

The Court affirmed the Superior Court’s judgment. Crown’s challenges to the dismissal of its contract counterclaims and to BCD’s liability for breach of contract were moot because Crown failed to appeal independent grounds supporting those rulings. The Court also affirmed the rejection of Crown’s fraud and civil-conspiracy counterclaims because Crown failed to prove justifiable reliance, and civil conspiracy requires an underlying wrong.