Care Travel Company, Ltd. v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that if one party imposes a unilateral modification and the other party continues to perform, recovery for breach is precluded
• upholding damages calculated based on the plaintiff’s analysis of the defendant’s profit records in the disputed air travel service areas
• approving practice of “interpos[ing] relevant questions to witnesses to clarify both legal and factual issues and thus minimize 18 possible confusion in the jurors’ minds” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• extrinsic evidence may be used once a court determines that a contract term is ambiguous
• extrinsic evidence may be used once a court determines that a contract term is ambiguous
• “The compromise nature of the verdict gives rise to an inference that the jury considered both parties’ arguments and attempted to arrive at a reasonable estimate of appellee’s damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).