Ocean Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Abeta Travel Service, Inc.

ALMON, Justice.

These appeals are from a judgment rendered on a jury verdict in favor of Abeta Travel Service, Inc. (“Abeta”), and against Ocean Cruise Lines, Inc. (“OCL”), for $250,000.

OCL is the general sales agent in the United States for OCL, S.A., a Panamanian corporation. Abeta is a travel agency based in Mobile. Following talks with OCL’s group reservations manager, Abeta entered into a contract entitled “group space confirmation” on February 11, 1987. That contract gave Abeta the right to sell up to 50 spaces on an OCL cruise bound for Scandinavia. The contract stated that the reserved…