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.

Opinion:
MacGILL v. MacGILL.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
May 22, 1925.
Rehearing Denied July 16, 1925.)
No. 3538.
'I. Divorce <@=316 — Husband held not in position to urge that alimony decree was ever binding on him.
Husband having refused for years to pay under alimony decree, because void for nonconformity with Burns’ Ann. St. Ind. 1914, § 1088, cannot later assert that it was ever binding, and that contract made after "decree to pay wife sum named in decree monthly was without consideration, because it amounted only to agreement to do what he was already bound to do by decree.
2. Husband and wife' <@=278(2) — Indiana rule as to legality of alimony agreements stated.
, In Indiana, agreements for alimony are void only if made before or pending divorce proceedings, as inducement to procure divorce or not to contest.
3. Divorce <@=316 — Contract to pay wife monthly sum held not without consideration.
Contract between husband and 'wife, two days after she obtained decree for alimony of $250 per month, reciting consideration, of the premises and further consideration of $1, hel$ ¡ to preclude presumption that obligation to pay under decree was only consideration for contract; waiver of wife’s right to appeal and to ask for modification of decree, which was in fact void, being good consideration.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.’
Suit by Frances G. MaeGill against Robert A. MaeGill. To review an order dismissing the suit, plaintiff brings error.
Order reversed, with direction.
Edward J. Kelley, of Chicago, HI., for plaintiff in error.
Carroll J: Lord, off Chicago, 111., for defendant in error.
Before ,, ALSCHULER, EVANS and PAGE, Circuit Judges.
PAGE, Circuit Judge.
The' parties are placed here as in the District Court. Defendant, in an Indiana court, obtained a decree for divorce against plaintiff, and she obtained a decree for the payment of $250 per month while she. remained unmarried. Two days later the written contract here in question was made, by which defendant agreed to pay plaintiff the sum of $250 per month, as provided in the decree, and to convert insurance policies then on defendant’s life, and to procure other new policies, so as to raise an annuity to pay the amount in ease of, defendant’s death.
The District Court dismissed' plaintiff’s suit on the contract on the theory that the contract was without consideration. To sustain the order of dismissal, defendant urges:
(a) That contracts touching alimony, either before or after decree, are void. The Indiana cases cited hold only that agreements for alimony, made before or pending divorce proceedings, as am inducement to one to procure a divorce or to the other not to contest, are void, as against public policy. •Some of the Illinois authorities relied on hold that a contract between the parties to change a decree is not valid, unless approved by tho eourt. Those eases so hold because in Illinois the courts retain jurisdiction to modify decrees for alimony. It is admitted that in Indiana the courts have no such jurisdiction.
(h) Tho urge that defendant’s agreement to pay alimony, which he was already obligated by the decree to pay, was without consideration, is without merit for several reasons. Defendant is here insisting that the decree requiring defendant to pay alimony while plaintiff remained unmarried is either void or voidable, at defendant’s election, because it does not conform to section 1088 of Burns’ Revised Statutes of Indiana of 1914. He has for years refused to pay under that decree, and may not here urge that it was ever binding on him. After reciting the decree, and defendant’s desire to provide for plaintiff, because of their'former relations, the contract provides:
“Now, therefore, in consideration of tho premises and in further consideration of the sum of $1, cash in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and other good and valuable consideration, it is hereby agreed,” etc.
Those provisions preclude any presumption that the obligation to pay under the decree was the only consideration for the contract. The contract was made two days after tho‘entry of the decree, and during the term. Plaintiff had the right to appeal, the right to move for a new trial, and to ask for the modification of the decree so that it would conform to the statute. The waiver of any of those rights was a good consideration. Union Bank v. Geary, 30 U. S. (5 Pet.) 99, 114, 8 L. Ed. 60; Elliott & Co. v. Lagonda (D. C.) 205 F. 152, 156. Erom the fact that defendant paid for plaintiff’s support from the time of separation, and then, after he had a decree against her for a divorce, consented to an order on himself to pay the same amount, and two days later, not only recited in the contract that he desired to provide for her support, and did so provide, but went beyond the terms of’the decree and secured its payment in ease of his death, there is raised a very strong presumption that there were good and valuable considerations not disclosed. Undoubtedly, if asked, the eourt would have made a good decree. Maybe a good decree would have been a lien upon real estate and hampered defendant. Maybe plaintiff was beneficiary under the policies, without the right in defendant to make a change. Possibly the divorce was granted for impotency, in which ease there would have been very compelling reasons why plaintiff should have had a sound decree for alimony. The contract was valid upon its face.
The order of dismissal is reversed, with direction to proceed in harmony with this opinion.

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

Choices:

Answer: 1