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.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment for defendant in an action instituted against the Town of Timmonsville, S. C., to recover the balance due on a promissory note. The court below denied recovery on the grounds that the note was issued without authority and in contravention of constitutional and statutory provisions and that it was barred by the statute of limitations. We think that the judgment should be sustained on both grounds.
It appears that the note was not a tax-anticipation certificate nor was it given for goods or services had and received for the benefit of the town and with reasonable expectation that they could and would be paid from revenue of the current year. Cf. United States Rubber Products v. Town of Batesburg, 183 S.C. 49, 190 S.E. 120, 110 A.L.R. 144; Luther v. Wheeler, 73 S.C. 83, 52 S.C. 874, 4 L.R.A.,N.S., 746, 6 Ann.Cas. 754. On the contrary, it was given in payment for paving done after the proceeds of a bond issue authorized by the voters had been exhausted and with the understanding that it was to be paid for in future years. Its issuance clearly contravened Art. 8, Sec. 7, of the Constitution of South Carolina and Sec. 7442, of the South Carolina Code. Bolton v. Wharton, 163 S. C. 242, 161 S.E. 454, 86 A.L.R. 1101; Tarver v. Town of Johnston, 173 S.C. 333, 175 S. E. 821.
The action is admittedly barred by the statute of limitations unless the running of the statute is held to have been tolled by a letter written by an attorney at law to plaintiff with reference to settlement of the note. In the letter the attorney stated that he was acting for the town; but there is no evidence that he was properly authorized to bind it in this matter. See 37 C. J. 1136; 34 Am.Jur. 262; Taylor v. Perryville, 132 Md. 412, 415, 104 A. 475; Wurth v. City of Paducah, 116 Ky. 403, 76 S.W. 143, 105 Am.St.Rep. 225 and note; City of Houston v. Jankowskie, 76 Tex. 368, 13 S.W. 269, 18 Am.St.Rep. 57.
Affirmed.

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

Answer: A