Task: songer_realapp

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.
Your task is to determine whether or not the formally listed appellants in the case are the "real parties." That is, are they the parties whose real interests are most directly at stake? (e.g., in some appeals of adverse habeas corpus petition decisions, the respondent is listed as the judge who denied the petition, but the real parties are the prisoner and the warden of the prison) (another example would be "Jones v A 1990 Rolls Royce" where Jones is a drug agent trying to seize a car which was transporting drugs - the real party would be the owner of the car). For cases in which an independent regulatory agency is the listed appellant, the following rule was adopted: If the agency initiated the action to enforce a federal rule or the agency was sued by a litigant contesting an agency action, then the agency was coded as a real party. However, if the agency initially only acted as a forum to settle a dispute between two other litigants, and the agency is only listed as a party because its ruling in that dispute is at issue, then the agency is considered not to be a real party. For example, if a union files an unfair labor practices charge against a corporation, the NLRB hears the dispute and rules for the union, and then the NLRB petitions the court of appeals for enforcement of its ruling in an appeal entitled "NLRB v Widget Manufacturing, INC." the NLRB would be coded as not a real party. Note that under these definitions, trustees are usually "real parties" and parents suing on behalf of their children and a spouse suing on behalf of their injured or dead spouse are also "real parties."

HICKS, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for personal injuries, controlled by the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Act April 22, 1908, c. 149, § 1, 35 Stat. 65; title 45, c. 2, § 51, U. S. C. (45 USCA § 51). Plaintiff in error challenges the denial of its motion to direct a verdict. This is the only matter presented here.
Defendant in error, herein called plaintiff, was one of a crew of freight handlers, engaged in transferring a large and heavy crated electric motor from a freight car to the platform of a freight station. To accomplish this, plaintiff and his fellows had balanced the crate upon the steel plow and frame of an ordinary two-wheel freight truck, with the forward end of the crate extending some two or three feet beyond the plow of the truek. They had pulled the truck, thus loaded, to the station platform, and in the process of unloading they had lowered the front of the truek until the lower front edge of the crate rested on the platform. The crate was about 5 feet long, 3% feet wide, and 4 feet high, and, including the motor, weighed about a ton and a half. While it was in the position indicated, the crew undertook to .lower it to the platform in the following manner:
Three of them manually further elevated the upraised end while plaintiff and two others forced down the handles of the truck, lever fashion, thus assisting- the operation by raising the plow of the truek. When the raised end of the crate had thus been further elevated, those having hold of it held it suspended, while plaintiff and his fellows raised the truek handles and pulled the truek back somewhat, and again lowered the handles. As the men holding the crate gradually lowered it, the plow would again engage with the underside of the crate. The intention was to repeat this operation until the truek was entirely removed and the crate- safely lowered; but either while the truck was being placed, or had been placed, in position to again receive the crate when lowered, the handles of the truek being down, the crate came down with unexpected force upon the plow, forcing it down and the handles of the truck up against the plaintiff, to his injury.
It is clear that the injury resulted from the impact of the crate upon the plow, but this does not of itself justify the verdict in plaintiff’s favo-r. Proof of negligence upon the part of plaintiff’s fellow workmen is esr sential, and we can And no evidence of it. Plaintiff did not see the crate fall. Depner. one of the crew, attempted no explanation of it, and no other member of the crew was called as a witness. There is no proof that either of the men voluntarily released his hold upon the crate, as charged in the amended petition, or exerted less than his utmost physical strength to support it, or lowered it in any unusual manner, or was otherwise guilty of any fault.
If in the natural course of the- operation, the force of the impact of the crate upon the plow was greater than that anticipated .by plaintiff and his fellows, or if this was occasioned by withdrawing the truek somewhat further than was expected by those holding the crate, the result can be characterized as nothing more than a normal incident to the work in hand and as a risk assumed; but the impact of the crate upon the plow, standing alone, is not evidence that the men handling it were lacking in due care. Southern Railway Co. v. Derr, 240 F. 73, 74 (C. C. A. 6); Cincinnati,Co. v. So. Fork Co., 139 F. 528, 533, 1 L. R. A. (N. S.) 533 (C. C. A. 6). Upon the argument, counsel for plaintiff disclaimed the application of the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. There must be some other fact or circumstance connected with the occurrence which will afford a substantial basis for an inference of negligence (cases supra), and, in our opinion, the record discloses no such evidence and justifies no conclusion beyond mere guess or conjecture. The record is entirely silent as to how or why, or with clearness when, the impact took place, or that it was not an ordinary incident of the work which the men were engaged in. For sueh lack of any substantial evidence to support plaintiff's petition, the motion for a directed verdict should have been sustained.
tfhe judgment is therefore reversed, and the case remanded for a new trial.

Question: Are the formally listed appellants in the case the "real parties", that is, are they the parties whose real interests are most directly at stake?
A. both 1st and 2nd listed appellants are real parties (or only one appellant, and that appellant is a real party)
B. the 1st appellant is not a real party
C. the 2nd appellant is not a real party
D. neither the 1st nor the 2nd appellants are real parties
E. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A