Task: songer_casetyp1_7-3-3

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis.
Your task is to determine the specific issue in the case within the broad category of "economic activity and regulation - commercial disputes". 

PER CURIAM.
Appellant brought this suit to set aside a deed on the ground that the grantor was mentally incompetent. The District Court, on conflicting evidence, adjudged that the grantor was of sound mind and the deed valid.
A few minutes before the trial appellant’s counsel learned that one of her witnesses, Marie Ryan, was ill and unable to testify. Expecting to produce this witness on the following day, counsel answered ready and went to trial; but Ryan, as it turned out, was not able to appear at any time during the trial. The court refused to grant a continuance for the purpose of taking her deposition. The question is whether this was an abuse of discretion.
Appellant told the court nothing about the nature of Ryan’s probable testimony except that it would be “very important” and would be “along the line of. what Mollie testified to * * * and additional things.” The testimony of the witness Mollie Maxwell had been along at least two divergent lines, one favorable and one unfavorable to the grantor’s sanity. She had testified to eccentricities, some of them gross, on the part of the grantor, who was her employer. She had also testified: “I can’t say that she was crazy, but her mind was bad. If she had been crazy I wouldn’t have been working for her; but her mind was bad, very bad.” The court found as facts that the grantor “eschewed baths” and had “certain eccentricities.” Ryan’s cumulative testimony, and likewise the “additional things” which counsel had in mind but did not disclose, might or might not have been important. If they would in fact have been important, counsel should have made this clear by a definite offer of proof.
On the other hand, a judge is no mere umpire. '“It is the recognized function of a trial judge to see that facts are clearly and fully developed.” He necessarily has a wide discretion in the matter. We think it would have been better practice for the court either to satisfy itself, by questioning counsel, that Ryan’s testimony would not affect the result of the case, or to grant a brief continuance so that appellant might take her deposition. But we are not prepared to rule that the court’s failure to do either of these things was an abuse of discretion.
Affirmed.
Cf. Cornwell v. Cornwell, 73 App.D.C. 233, 318 F.2d 396; Harrah v. Morgenthau, 67 App.D.C. 119, 89 F.2d 863.
Bethlehem Steel Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 74 App.D.C. 52, 63, 120 F.2d 641, 642.

Question: What is the specific issue in the case within the general category of "economic activity and regulation - commercial disputes"?
A. contract disputes-general (private parties) (includes breach of contract, disputes over meaning of contracts, suits for specific performance, disputes over whether contract fulfilled, claims that money owed on contract) (Note: this category is not used when the dispute fits one of the more specific categories below)
B. disputes over government contracts
C. insurance disputes
D. debt collection, disputes over loans
E. consumer disputes with retail business or providers of services
F. breach of fiduciary duty; disputes over franchise agreements
G. contract disputes - was there a contract, was it a valid contract ?
H. commerce clause challenges to state or local government action
I. other contract disputes- (includes misrepresentation or deception in contract, disputes among contractors or contractors and subcontractors, indemnification claims)
J. private economic disputes (other than contract disputes)
Answer:

Answer: J