Opinion ID: 31600
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Heading: According to CrossRoad, Union Pacific’s

Text: To succeed on a claim for breach of con- inefficiency and untimeliness constitutes a tract, a plaintiff must prove the defendant vio- breach of their agreement, because it preventlated some obligation under the agreement.2 ed CrossRoad from relying on UPRR for its shipping, and thus precluded it from realizing 2 See Prime Prods., Inc. v. S.S.I. Plastics, Inc., 97 S.W.3d 631, 636-37 (Tex. App.SSHouston [1st Dist.] 2002, pet. denied). 2 the amounts it had anticipated based on the in- have known, at the time, that it would be centive plan. As the district court noted, the unable to perform in the manner represented. parties’ agreement did not render Union Even if we accepted this argument, to support Pacific a surety of CrossRoad’s business a cause for fraud or misrepresentation a success. plaintiff must prove that its reliance was justifiable. See Clardy Mfg. Co. v. Marine