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.

WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judge.
Mrs. Clotilde White leased to Chester Martin her individually owned unit in a cooperative apartment building in the District of Columbia. Martin and his family moved in on Saturday, August 18, 1945. When he came home from work the following Monday afternoon, he could not open the front door of his apartment. The janitor, whom he called, succeeded in opening it after a few minutes of effort. Binding or sticking at the bottom had caused the difficulty and Martin told the janitor the condition should be corrected.
As Mrs. Martin left the apartment Tuesday morning, she twice tried unsuccessfully to close the door from the outside. When she pulled a third time, the knob came off and she fell in the outer hall and broke her hip.
The Martins sued in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia to recover $60,000 from Mrs. White and from Rutland Court Owners, Inc., the corporation which held legal title to the building, issued certificates of ownership and right of occupancy to purchasers of apartments, and generally managed and operated the property. Mrs. White, being out of the country, was not served with process, so the litigation proceeded against the corporation alone.
It was alleged in the complaint that the front door of the apartment “was defective in that it could not be closed or opened without applying undue pressure and that there was difficulty in locking and unlocking the door and in turning the latch.” Negligence was charged -in two forms: first, in failing to repair after notice of a defective condition; second, in undertaking to repair but doing it so negligently as to cause the injury. The court declined to submit the first issue, holding it was not the defendant’s duty to make the repair. On the second issue the jury found for the defendant.
The plaintiff is here as appellant, seeking a reversal on the sole ground that the court erred in ruling the defendant had no duty to make the repair.
Appellee was not the landlord of the appellant, Mártin, and had no contraer tual relation with him. Assuming, without deciding, that the corporation owed him, as Mrs. White’s tenant, the same, duty it owed to her, we find no obligation upon the appellee to make repairs such as that involved here. In the contract between the appellee and Mrs. White, she agreed to “properly maintain, care for and improve” her own apartment. Appellee agreed only “to maintain and operate” the building for the use and benefit of all the cooperative owners. The District Court’s ruling was correct.
Affirmed.

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

Answer: 99