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 "private business and its executives". 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:
BROWN SHEET IRON & STEEL CO. v. MAPLE LEAF OIL & REFINING CO., LIMITED.
No. 9753.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Jan. 26, 1934.
Rehearing Denied March 7, 1934.
H. V. Mercer, of Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.
Chester W. Johnson, of Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.
Before GARDNER, W00DR0UGH, and BOOTH, Circuit Judges.
GARDNER, Circuit Judge.
Appellee as plaintiff below brought this action for damages for breach of warranties alleged to have been made by appellant in connection with the sale by it of a certain steel and iron storage tank. The action was tried to a jury and resulted in a verdict in favor of appellee in the sum of $15,000, and from the judgment entered thereon defendant has appealed.
The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the lower court.
Various errors are assigned which may be summarized as follows: (1) The court erred in overruling defendant’s demurrer to the complaint; (2) the court erred in refusing to require the plaintiff to make its complaint more definite and eertain, or to strike out the complaint; (3) the court erred in entering judgment in favor of the plaintiff for damages on the complaint; (4) the court erred in refusing to sustain defendant’s motion to arrest the judgment; (5) the court erred in submitting said cause to a jury under the pleadings; and (6) the court erred in refusing to grant a judgment notwithstanding the verdict.
The assignments thus summarized are elaborated more or less, but in the view we take of the issues as presented by the record, further details of the assignments are not material.
A demurrer was filed to the original complaint, and this was sustained with leave to the plaintiff, however, to amend. Plaintiff' then filed an amended complaint, to which defendant again demurred, which demurrer the court overruled, allowing the defendant time within which to file an answer. Defendant then filed a motion to strike the amended complaint, or, in the alternative, to make it more definite and certain. The court entered its order requiring certain portions of the complaint to be made more definite and certain, granting plaintiff time within which to comply with the order granting defendant time within which to file answer, and denying the motion in so far as it asked to strike the complaint. Plaintiff then filed its second amended complaint. To this complaint defendant interposed 'neither demurrer nor motion, but filed its answer. Plaintiff then filed reply to the affirmative allegations of the answer, and thereafter the cause was tried upon its merits.
The record contains no bill of exceptions, and hence, there is not presented for review any alleged errors at law occurring during the trial of the action; nor may we review the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment.
There were, as has been noted, certain demurrers and motions interposed by the defendants directed to the original complaint and the first amended complaint. After these had been disposed of by the court, the plaintiff, in compliance with the order of the court, filed its second amended complaint. To this pleading defendant took no exception, either by demurrer or motion, but filed answer. We need not, therefore, give attention to the previous pleadings, nor any of the rulings with reference thereto. They were superseded by the second amended complaint, and defendant having answered this complaint, waived its right to demur thereto.
The only fieeord properly before us is the judgment roll. In this condition of the record, all intendments axe to be indulged in support of the judgment. If the judgment is sustained by the pleadings, it should be affirmed. In the absence of a bill of exceptions bringing up the evidence and the rulings of the court during the trial of the action, we must presume that the verdict and judgment are sustained by substantial evidence. We do not deem it important to analyze the various allegations of the complaint, but we think they are sufficient, at least after judgment, to sustain the judgment.
Presuming, as we must, that the evidence amply sustained the judgment, we should, if necessary to support the judgment,, presume that the pleadings were amended. 28 USCA § 777; El Dorado Refining Co. v. Lientz (C. C. A. 8) 7 F.(2d) 814; United Kansas Portland Cement Co. v. Harvey (C. C. A. 8) 216 F. 316; Haley v. Kilpatrick (C. C. A. 8) 104 F. 647; Schmidt v. United States (C. C. A. 8) 63 F.(2d) 390; Reynolds v. Stockton, 140 U. S. 254, 11 S. Ct. 773, 35 L. Ed. 464.
It is also urged that the court erred in not arresting judgment, and in refusing to grant judgment, notwithstanding the verdict. These assignments are not argued in the brief of counsel, and manifestly, these orders are not reviewable on this appeal.
The judgment appealed from is therefore affirmed.

Question: What is the total number of appellants in the case that fall into the category "private business and its executives"? Answer with a number.

Choices:

Answer: 1