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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.

VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.
This case was here on a former appeal, Fidelity Storage Company et al. v. Jaques, 61 App. D. C. 337, 62 F.(2d) 876, where a decree based on a finding of fact was entered.
Briefly, the Fidelity Storage Company, through David B. Karrick and Harry S. Plager, persons connected and, associated with the storage company, loaned to appel-lee, plaintiff below, $600, for which plaintiff gave two notes, one for $100 and one for $500. These notes were collaterally secured by certain household goods stored by plaintiff with the storage company. The court in that case found that ten days after the maturity of the notes, without notice to the plaintiff, or public notice of any kind, the goods were sold and purchased by Plager for an amount barely sufficient to satisfy the notes. The court found that the sale was null and void; and that, in the event the property was no longer in the possession of the defendants and capable of being returned to plaintiff, plaintiff recover from defendants the fair market value of the goods; and that defendants be credited with the amount of the loan of $600, together with interest thereon, and storage charges from October 28 to November 5,1925. The court then referred the case to the auditor to fix the value of the goods and the amount of the liabilities, if any, of the defendants and each of them in accordance with the decree. From that order an appeal was taken, which was here dismissed on the ground that it was not a final order from which appeal could be taken.
The case went back tb the court below, and the auditor made his finding, under the order of reference, fixing the value of the goods at $2j000, and finding a balance due the plaintiff of $1,395.33. For this amount judgment was entered, and from the judgment this appeal was taken.
We find it unnecessary to review the voluminous record, since, from a careful examination thereof, we are satisfied that the court below reached a proper conclusion in finding, from the evidence, that the sale was void. On the facts established, the law of the case is ruled by Ohio National Bank v. Central Const. Co., 17 App. D. C. 524.
In Richardson v. Van Auken, 5 App. D. C. 209, 213, the court, considering the binding effect upon the appellate court of the findings of a master or auditor, when concurred in by the court below, said: “This rule requiring exceptions to be specific and definite in pointing out the supposed errors in the report, has a close logical relation to another rule of practice equally well established, and that is, that the findings of a master or an auditor, concurred in by the court below, .are to be taken as presumptively correct, and will be permitted to stand, unless some obvious error has intervened in the application of the law, or the principles of the decree under which he acts, or some important mistake has been made in the evidence, and which has been clearly pointed out and made manifest. This rule has been repeatedly affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and is one of general application in the equity practice, both in the Federal and State courts of the country. Tilghman v. Proctor, 125 U. S. 136 [8 S. Ct. 894, 31 L. Ed. 664]; Evans v. State Nat. Bank, 141 U. S. 107 [11 S. Ct. 885, 35 L. Ed. 654]; Crawford v. Neal, 144 U. S. 585 [12 S. Ct. 759, 36 L. Ed. 552]; Furrer v. Ferris, 145 U. S. 132 [2 S. Ct. 821, 36 L. Ed. 649].”
Applying this rule to the instant case, we find no mistake in the evidence or error of law which would justify a reversal of the decree.
The decree is affirmed, with costs.

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: D