Task: songer_direct1

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision, coded as "liberal" or "conservative". Consider liberal to be for government tax claim; for person claiming patent or copyright infringement; for the plaintiff alleging the injury; for economic underdog if one party is clearly an underdog in comparison to the other, neither party is clearly an economic underdog; in cases pitting an individual against a business, the individual is presumed to be the economic underdog unless there is a clear indication in the opinion to the contrary; for debtor or bankrupt; for government or private party raising claim of violation of antitrust laws, or party opposing merger; for the economic underdog in private conflict over securities; for individual claiming a benefit from government; for government in disputes over government contracts and government seizure of property; for government regulation in government regulation of business; for greater protection of the environment or greater consumer protection (even if anti-government); for the injured party in admiralty - personal injury; for economic underdog in admiralty and miscellaneous economic cases. Consider the directionality to be "mixed" if the directionality of the decision was intermediate to the extremes defined above or if the decision was mixed (e.g., the conviction of defendant in a criminal trial was affirmed on one count but reversed on a second count or if the conviction was afirmed but the sentence was reduced). Consider "not ascertained" if the directionality could not be determined or if the outcome could not be classified according to any conventional outcome standards.

PER CURIAM.
Appellant, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, has urged in its petition for rehearing in this case that the driver of the automobile involved in the collision, namely Thomas Donald Farmer, the intestate of Willie Farmer, Administrator, was, upon the proof in the case, shown to have been guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.
The point is well taken; and it was not our intention, in our opinion, to leave the impression that we considered that the administrator of the decedent automobile driver had presented upon the whole evidence in the case a jury issue as to whether or not appellee’s intestate was guilty of contributory negligence, for we think, upon the proof adduced, that he was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law.
Upon re-trial, if the same evidence and no more should be adduced by appellee, the trial judge would properly direct a verdict for defendant, regardless of whether or not the proof should show that the violation of the city ordinance of Springfield was one of the proximate causes of the accident. The Tennessee rule is that, where the joint negligence of the plaintiff and the defendant constitute the proximate cause of an accident, there can be no recovery by the plaintiff. We reiterate what we said in our opinion, that proximate contributory negligence of a plaintiff will defeat his recovery, though the negligence attributed to a defendant consists in the violation of an ordinance. McCampbell v. Central of Georgia Railway Co., 194 Tenn. 594, 599, 253 S.W.2d 763.
With this added expression of the instruction intended to be conveyed in our opinion and mandate remanding the case to the district court for a new trial, the petition for rehearing filed by the appellant railroad herein is denied.

Question: What is the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision?
A. conservative
B. liberal
C. mixed
D. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: B