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:
COLLINS v. TWEEDALE et al.
No. 5450.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Feb. 26, 1935.
Thomas R. Clevenger and Wm. M. Clev-enger, both of Atlantic City, N. J., for appellant.
Harry Miller and G. Arthur Bolte, both of Atlantic City, N. J., for appellees.
Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
DAVIS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court dismissing the bill of complaint in which it was sought to impress a vendor’s lien upon certain real estate described therein.
The allegations in the bill tend to show that on September 5, 1925, Kate B. Collins and Hugh Collins, her husband, sold a certain piece of real estate to Everett E. Marshall and Raymond A. Van Hook, who, with their wives joining, executed a bond for $27,000 which was secured by a purchase-money mortgage on the real estate to Hugh Collins as part consideration for the property. On May 28, 1929, Hugh Collins assigned the bond' and mortgage to his wife, the complainant.
On July 1, 1931, she assigned the bond and mortgage to the Pleasantville National Bank, hereinafter called the bank, for the sum of $12,000 (though the amount including principal and interest then due on the mortgage was $17,612), which was to be paid as follows: $2,000 in cash on the execution and delivery of the assignment of the bond and mortgage on July 1, 1931, and five certificates of deposit, each for $2,000, and payable, one on July 1,1932, one on July 1, 1933, one on July 1, 1934, one on July 1, 1935, and the final one on July 1, 1936. Before July 1, 1932, when the first certificate became due, the bank purchased on its own foreclosure sale because of default of the mortgagors the real estate covered by the mortgage.
On July 1, 1932, the bank paid the first certificate of $2,000, but before the next certificate became due on July 1, 1933, it became insolvent and the appellee, Alonzo Tw.eedale, was appointed receiver for it, and, as such, he still has title to the real estate.
Kate B. Collins filed with the receiver a claim for $8,000, representing the four unpaid certificates, due her from the bank and received a dividend of $400 on account thereof.
By her bill of complaint, as above stated, she seeks to impress a vendor’s lien upon the real estate in question. On motion of tiie appellees, the court dismissed the bill on the ground that the mortgage was personal property to which the vendor’s lien did not attach.
The complainant, however, contends that the mortgage constitutes an interest in land and its assignment was a conveyance of real estate.
Two questions arise out of the facts of 'this case:
(1) Did the mortgage constitute an interest in the real estate or did it remain personalty ?
(2) Assuming that it constituted an interest in real estate, was the right to a vendor’s lien waived or lost by the agreement for the sale of the mortgage ?
1. At common law a mortgage on real estate created an immediate estate in fee simple in the mortgagee, subject, however, to be defeated by the payment of the mortgage money on the day named in the condition. The mortgagee might enter immediately upon the mortgaged premises and hold them until the condition was performed. But in New Jersey whose law controls this case, the mortgagor may retain possession until the condition is broken by default in the payment of the mortgage money. Shields v. Lozear, 34 N. J. Law, 496, 3 Am. St. Rep. 256. While a mortgage is held to be a conveyance of an estate in the mortgaged premises, Colton v. Depew, 60 N. J. Eq. 454, 46 A. 728, 83 Am. St. Rep. 650, the courts have defined the character of that estate to be security only for the debt. Dev-lin v. Collier, 53 N. J. Law, 422, 22 A. 201. That the owner of a mortgage on real estate does not have an interest in the land, except such as is necessary .for the realization of the debt due him, is evident from the facts that, if the mortgagee upon default enters upon the property and holds it, he is obliged to account to the mortgagor as owner for the rents and profits thereof; if the debt secured by the mortgage is paid, the connection of the mortgagee with the land ceases without the necessity of a reconveyance; and if he dies intestate before the debt is paid, the mortgage passes to his legal representatives as personalty while the interest of the mortgagor who dies intestate descends to his heirs as real estate. The interest of the mortgagor in the mortgaged premises carries with it the incidents of real property while that of the mortgagee is devoid of almost all of such incidents. The mortgage is a mere pledge for the payment of the debt with power to gain possession of the land in order to collect the debt on the breach of the condition in the mortgage. Woodside v. Adams, 40 N. J. Law, 417; Devlin v. Collier, 53 N. J. Law, 422, 22 A. 201; Wade v. Miller, 32 N. J. Law, 296; Blue v. Everett, 56 N. J. Eq. 455, 39 A. 765; Stewart v. Fairchild-Baldwin Co., 91 N. J. Eq. 86, 108 A. 301; Stanton v. Metropolitan Lumber Co., 107 N. J. Eq. 345, 152 A. 653.
2. Assuming, however, that the mortgagee in the instant case had an estate in the land covered by the mortgage, it is evident that she intended by the sale and assignment to convey, and did convey, to the bank all her right, title, and interest in and to the mortgage and the premises which it covered. She agreed that for the sum of $12,000 she would “well and sufficiently sell and assign to the said party of the second part, its successors and assigns,” the mortgage in question. This agreement she carried out in the assignment.
The assignment was delivered and the $2,000 was paid. There was no reservation therein of a lien or anything indicating that she thought she had any further interest in the premises. Thereafter, she relied entirely upon the promise of the bank to pay her. The agreement of sale provided that the bank would “pay and satisfy or cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said party of the first part, the said sum of Twelve thousand ($12,000) Dollars ás and for the purchase money for the said Assignment of Mortgage.” The lien which she as mortgagee had, and the right which she had to foreclose the mortgage and realize on the pledge, was lost when she substituted the promise of the bank contained in the agreement for the mortgage. Welch v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company (C. C. A.) 165 F. 561-565, 566; Brinkerhoff v. Vansciven et al., 4 N. J. Eq. 251; Knickerbocker Trust Company v. Carteret Steel Co., 79 N. J. Eq. 501, 82 A. 146. This she knew and intended, for she filed her claim for the balance of the $8,000 due her as a general creditor with the receiver of the bank and her pro rata dividend of $400 was paid to her just as was paid to other unsecured creditors.
It follows that the decree dismissing the bill of complaint must be affirmed.

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