Task: songer_appnatpr

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
In some cases there is some confusion over who should be listed as the appellant and who as the respondent. This confusion is primarily the result of the presence of multiple docket numbers consolidated into a single appeal that is disposed of by a single opinion. Most frequently, this occurs when there are cross appeals and/or when one litigant sued (or was sued by) multiple litigants that were originally filed in district court as separate actions. The coding rule followed in such cases should be to go strictly by the designation provided in the title of the case. The first person listed in the title as the appellant should be coded as the appellant even if they subsequently appeared in a second docket number as the respondent and regardless of who was characterized as the appellant in the opinion.
To clarify the coding conventions, consider the following hypothetical case in which the US Justice Department sues a labor union to strike down a racially discriminatory seniority system and the corporation (siding with the position of its union) simultaneously sues the government to get an injunction to block enforcement of the relevant civil rights law. From a district court decision that consolidated the two suits and declared the seniority system illegal but refused to impose financial penalties on the union, the corporation appeals and the government and union file cross appeals from the decision in the suit brought by the government. Assume the case was listed in the Federal Reporter as follows:
United States of America,
Plaintiff, Appellant
v
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendant, Appellee.
International Brotherhood of Widget Workers,AFL-CIO
Defendants, Cross-appellants
v
United States of America.
Widgets, Inc. & Susan Kuersten Sheehan, President & Chairman
of the Board
Plaintiff, Appellants,
v
United States of America,
Defendant, Appellee.
This case should be coded as follows:Appellant = United States, Respondents = International Brotherhood of Widget Workers Widgets, Inc., Total number of appellants = 1, Number of appellants that fall into the category "the federal government, its agencies, and officials" = 1, Total number of respondents = 3, Number of respondents that fall into the category "private business and its executives" = 2, Number of respondents that fall into the category "groups and associations" = 1.
Note that if an individual is listed by name, but their appearance in the case is as a government official, then they should be counted as a government rather than as a private person. For example, in the case "Billy Jones & Alfredo Ruiz v Joe Smith" where Smith is a state prisoner who brought a civil rights suit against two of the wardens in the prison (Jones & Ruiz), the following values should be coded: number of appellants that fall into the category "natural persons" =0 and number that fall into the category "state governments, their agencies, and officials" =2. A similar logic should be applied to businesses and associations. Officers of a company or association whose role in the case is as a representative of their company or association should be coded as being a business or association rather than as a natural person. However, employees of a business or a government who are suing their employer should be coded as natural persons. Likewise, employees who are charged with criminal conduct for action that was contrary to the company policies should be considered natural persons.
If the title of a case listed a corporation by name and then listed the names of two individuals that the opinion indicated were top officers of the same corporation as the appellants, then the number of appellants should be coded as three and all three were coded as a business (with the identical detailed code). Similar logic should be applied when government officials or officers of an association were listed by name.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons". If the total number cannot be determined (e.g., if the appellant is listed as "Smith, et. al." and the opinion does not specify who is included in the "et.al."), then answer 99.

MATTHES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal from the judgment of the district court in favor of American Surety Company of New York, now Transamerica Insurance Company, emanates from another phase of the lawsuit originally instituted by American against the City of Grandview, Missouri, appellants herein and others in connection with the construction of a sewer system in the City of Grandview, Missouri. See our opinions in Sanitary Systems, Inc. v. American Surety Co. of New York, 331 F.2d 438 (8th Cir. 1964) (No. 17,479), and City of Grandview, Missouri v. Hudson and American Surety Company of New York v. City of Grandview, Missouri, 377 F.2d 694 (8th Cir. 1967), decided contemporaneously herewith, for a history of the litigation and the issues involved in the disposition thereof.
As part of the consideration for the execution of the performance and payment bond by American as surety for Sanitary Systems, Inc., appellants by written contract obligated themselves to indemnify and save American harmless against any and all claims, costs or expenses sustained or incurred by American by reason of having executed the bond.
Subsequent to our decision in Sanitary Systems, Inc. v. American Surety Co. of New York, supra, American completed the construction of the sewer project in the City of Grandview. It then prosecuted a claim under Count V of its complaint against appellants for the amounts expended by it in completing the project. The court’s determination of the issues presented culminated in the judgment from which this appeal is taken.
Appellants do not challenge the court’s finding that the provisions of the indemnity agreement are sufficiently broad to impose liability upon them to indemnify American for the cost of the cornpletion of the sewer project. Nor do appellants question the amount of the costs incurred by American. The sole contention advanced by appellants is that the City of Grandview made it impossible for the contractor [Sanitary Systems, Inc.] to complete the sewer project under the contract, and therefore American was not obligated to the City under its indemnity bond and had no right to complete the project.
We have no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that appellants are precluded by the familiar doctrine of res judicata from once again raising and seeking an adjudication of the question they have presented. It is fundamental that a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction is res judicata as to the parties thereto, not only as to all matters litigated and determined by such judgment, but also as to all relevant issues which could have been presented. Angel v. Bullington, 330 U.S. 183, 192-193, 67 S.Ct. 657, 91 L.Ed. 832 (1947); Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp., 328 U.S. 275, 282-283, 66 S.Ct. 1105, 90 L.Ed. 1230 (1946); Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank, 308 U.S. 371, 378, 60 S.Ct. 317, 84 L.Ed. 329 (1940); Rhodes v. Jones, 351 F.2d 884, 886 (8th Cir. 1965), cert. denied, 383 U.S. 919, 86 S.Ct. 914, 15 L.Ed.2d 673 (1965); Engelhardt v. Bell & Howell Co., 327 F.2d 30, 32 (8th Cir. 1964).
The evidence produced in the first trial, the district court’s findings therein and our opinion in that case conclusively demonstrate that the question whether the City’s conduct made performance by the contractor impossible has been fully litigated and resolved with finality. That issue has been laid to rest and cannot be resurrected and retried in this proceeding.
The judgment is affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "natural persons"? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 0