Task: songer_applfrom

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to identify the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court).

PER CURIAM:
For personal injuries suffered in a fall •while employed in the installation of furnaces during construction of an industrial plant in West Virginia, Francis G. Perkins was awarded damages by a jury in the District Court. On motion ■of the defendant, Henry J. Kaiser Construction Company, the verdict was set •aside and judgment rendered non ob-•stante for Construction. It had not failed in any duty to Perkins, the Court ■concluded, because the defective wooden guard rail of the defendant responsible for his misfortune was used by him at the time in an unforeseeable and plainly unintended manner. Perkins appeals; ye affirm.
The evidence comprised an explanation •of the respective relationships, inter se, •of the parties and the contractors engaged in the building project, a description of the faulty timber and a retracing of the injured employee’s movements resulting in the accident. A close and graphic narrative of the facts was included by the District Judge in his letter-opinion, which we adopt for its clarity. However, we think the motion n. o. v. is to be upheld upon the contributory negligence of the plaintiff, necessarily applied with the strictness of the West Virginia doctrine, rather than upon a want of a duty resting on the defendant. Both grounds were asserted in the motion. While they are almost inextricably interwoven, the contributory negligence is the plainer premise, for the employee’s participation in his own injury is manifest from the evidence.
Affirmed.

Question: What is the type of district court decision or judgment appealed from (i.e., the nature of the decision below in the district court)?
A. Trial (either jury or bench trial)
B. Injunction or denial of injunction or stay of injunction
C. Summary judgment or denial of summary judgment
D. Guilty plea or denial of motion to withdraw plea
E. Dismissal (include dismissal of petition for habeas corpus)
F. Appeals of post judgment orders (e.g., attorneys' fees, costs, damages, JNOV - judgment nothwithstanding the verdict)
G. Appeal of post settlement orders
H. Not a final judgment: interlocutory appeal
I. Not a final judgment: mandamus
J. Other (e.g., pre-trial orders, rulings on motions, directed verdicts) or could not determine nature of final judgment
K. Does not fit any of the above categories, but opinion mentions a "trial judge"
L. Not applicable (e.g., decision below was by a federal administrative agency, tax court)
Answer:

Answer: A