Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

POSTER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, brought suit to recover $14,600 as compensation for services alleged to have been rendered in procuring a purchaser for certain timber belonging to the defendant. After settlement of the pleadings the jury was waived, and the case submitted on the merits to Hon. Charlton R. Beattie, District Judge. Judge Beattie died before deciding the case, and by agreement it was then submitted to his successor, Hon. Louis H. Bums, District Judge, on the record as made up before Judge Beattie. After due consideration, Judge Bums entered judgment in favor of defendant in error and dismissed the suit.
In submitting the ease, neither side moved for judgment, nor was there any request for special findings of fact. No findings of fact were made by the District Court, although a brief opinion of Judge Bums appears in the record, which, of course, cannot take the place of special findings of fact. The judgment entered is in the nature of a general verdict.
There are 18 assignments of error. Eleven of them may be considered as attacking the judgment as contrary to the law and the evidence, for various reasons. As there was no motion for judgment, and there are no special findings of fact, the judgment rendered is conclusive on the parties, and we are not at liberty to examine the record, to determine whether the result was justified by the facts shown. Bank of Waterproof v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. (C. C. A.) 299 P. 478.
The other 7 assignments run to the admission or exclusion of answers to certain interrogatories filed in evidence. These assignments are wholly unsupported by bills of exceptions. It appears from the record that 7 bills of exception on which these assignments might have been based were presented to Judge Bums, and he declined to settle and sign them on the ground that they were presented too late. The eighth bill of exceptions is simply a narrative of the course of the case; that is, that it was first heard before Judge
■ Beattie and later before Judge Burns. This bill of exceptions recites that the stenographic report of the evidence made by a stenographer, Sherrer, and the documentary evidence on file in the office of the clerk of the court, is the evidence upon which the court rendered judgment.
While this evidence appears in the record, it is objected to by defendant in error as not being complete because of the omission of certain correspondence between the parties, and the bill of exceptions does not make the evidence in the record part of the bill. In fact, it appears that, although Judge Bums signed this bill, he declined to certify that the evidence presented was all of the evidence adduced, or that it was a true and correct statement of the evidence upon which the case was heard. This, of course, disposes of the errors assigned.
However, with a desire to do justice, should there be any error apparent, we have examined the record, and have reached the conclusion that the objections to the admission and exclusion of testimony are without merit, and that on the whole case the District Court decided rightly.
Affirmed.

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: C