Task: songer_numappel

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.
Your specific task is to determine the total number of appellants in the case. 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.

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
Appellee recovered damages for personal injuries sustained by him in a collision between an automobile in which he was riding and ‘a passenger train of the appellant railroad company.
The declaration alleged that appellant was negligent in failing to give warning by bell or whistle as the train approached the crossing. The defense was based on pleas of not guilty and contributory negligence.
The collision occurred in a small town at a grade crossing, where the highway, extending north and south, and the railroad, extending east and west, intersect. Appellee was riding in the front seat of the automobile, on the right side, by invitation of its owner, who wasi driving it. The automobile approached the crossing from the north, and passed in front of an engine which was standing with steam up on the side track east of the highway, and about 60 feet north of the main line of the railroad company. After the automobile crossed the side track and got within about 30 feet of the main line, the view to the west was unobstructed, and at this point appellee saw the passenger train approaching from that direction. He called to the driver to “look out,” but the latter first looked to his left toward the engine, which was standing still on the side track, and apparently did not see the passenger train in time to avoid the collision. The automobile was proceeding at a slow rate of speed, and, according to some of the testimony, could have been stopped within a distance of 3 or 4 feet. According to witnesses for appellee, the inference could he fairly drawn that the bell was not rung or the whistle blown until just at the moment of the collision, though this was disputed by witnesses for appellant.
Error is assigned on the refusal of the court at the dose of the evidence to direct a verdict for appellant.
Whether proper warning was given of the approach of the train was a question for the jury; and, in our opinion, it was likeiwise a question for the jury whether appellee was guilty of contributory negligence. Contributory negligence of tbe owner and driver of the automobile, if it be assumed, cannot be imputed to appellee, who was riding in the car as a guest, or by invitation. Ordinarily, it is not the duty of one riding in an automobile by invitation to direct the movements of the driver, unless the former has knowledge of some danger that is not obvious or is unknown to the latter; but, even under such circumstances, the guest must exercise reasonable care for his own protection. Shearman & Redfield on Negligence, § 66 ; 20 R. C. L. 163; Huddy on Automobiles, §§ 820, 823; Wicker v. Scott (C. C. A.) 29 F.(2d) 807. It is suggested that it was appellees duty to jump out of the automobile in time to avoid the collision; hut the jury could well find that the time was too short for that, after it became apparent that a collision was inevitable.
Error is assigned on the refusal of the trial court to give certain requested special instructions in its charge to the jury. But they were fully covered by the court’s general charge.
Error is not made to appear by any of the assignments, and the judgment is affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case? Answer with a number.
Answer:

Answer: 1