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:
In re GREENLIE-HALLIDAY CO.
No. 309.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
April 4, 1932.
Copal Miniz, of New York City, for appellant.
lialph . C. Taylor, of New York City (Clarence B. Plantz, of ’New York City, of counsel), for appellee.
Before MANTON, L. HAND, and SWAN, Circuit Judges.
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
More than a year prior to its bankruptcy, Greeulio-Halliday Company had executed a mortgage to Dora Halliday on real estate in the city of New York. This mortgage was promptly recorded on April 3,1930. On May 5, 1931, the mortgagee commenced an action of foreclosure in the Supreme Court of New 'York county and on that date served upon the mortgagor a copy of the summons and complaint. Before the mortgagor’s appearance or answer was due, it was adjudicated bankrupt upon its voluntary petition filed May 18,1931. No receiver in bankruptcy was appointed and no trustee was elected until July 9, 1931. In the meantime, Halliday proceeded with her foreclosure action without disclosing to the state court that the mortgagor had been adjudicated bankrupt and without obtaining leave from the bankruptcy court. The mortgagor was defaulted, a foreclosure decree entered, a sale made thereunder, and a deed issued by a judicial officer to the mortgage© as purchaser. Apparently under this deed, or at least at some time after the adjudication in bankruptcy, Halliday took possession of the property, for the trustee’s petition prays that she he required to turn over possession all hough it alleges that the bankrupt was in possession at the date of adjudication.
The trustee’s petition sets up the foregoing facts, and others intended to show that the mortgage waj invalid under state law. It asserts that the foreclosure proceedings are a cloud upon the trustee’s title and asks that they bo declared void. It also asks that Halliday deliver to the trastee possession of tho property and a deed therefor, that the mortgage be declared void, that the trustee he authorized to sell the property free and clou’ of the alleged mortgage, and that Halliday be restrained pendente lite from transferring or incumbering the title. She was served with an order to show cause why the petition should not bo granted returnable before the referee on August 3, 1931, and she appeared specially to- challenge jurisdiction.
It must be admitted that Halliday was asserting bona fide a claim to property held adversely to the trustee. Coneededly such a controversy is usually beyond the summary jurisdiction of a court of bankruptcy. Harrison v. Chamberlin, 271 U. S. 191, 46 S. Ct. 467, 70 L. Ed. 897. But the trustee contends that, since the property was in the possession of the bankrupt when the petition in bankruptcy was filed, the case falls within the equally well-established rule permitting summary decision of the controversy in such circumstances. Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. Johnson, 264 U. S. 1, 11, 44 S. Ct. 232, 68 L. Ed. 533. This contention disregards the fact that by the foreclosure suit the state court had already taken constructive possession of the property. Possession of the res vests the court which first acquires jurisdiction with power to hear and determine all controversies relating thereto, and for the time being disables other courts of co-ordinate jurisdiction from exercising a like power. Nor is the rule limited to cases where actual control has been exercised in the first suit before the second is instituted; it extends as well to a suit in which the court may do so in the progress of the litigation. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co. v. Lake St. El. R. Co., 177 U. S. 51, 61, 20 S. Ct. 564, 44 L. Ed. 667; Palmer v. Texas, 212 U. S. 118, 129, 29 S. Ct. 230, 53 L. Ed. 435; Harkin v. Brundage, 276 U. S. 36, 43, 48 S. Ct. 268, 72 L. Ed. 457. The appellant would differentiate these cases because they did not involve a petition in bankruptcy as the later suit. But the principle that one court will not snatch a res from another’s mouth is equally applicable to a court of bankruptcy. Straton v. New, 283 U. S. 318, 51 S. Ct. 465, 75 L. Ed. 1060. It is true that there the state court had proceeded to a decree of sale before the defendant filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy, but, as we read the opinion, it was the beginning of the suit, not the decree, which was the crucial date. The opinion states at page 331 of 283 U. S., 51 S. Ct. 465, 470: “As heretofore noted, there are a few eases which have held that the bankruptcy court may enjoin proceedings, brought prior to the filing of the petition, to enforce valid liens which are more than four months old at the date of bankruptcy; but these eases are contrary to the decisions of this Court and to the great weight of federal authority.”
The appellant’s arguments are squarely met and answered by Bryan v. Speakman, 53 F.(2d) 463 (C. C. A. 5), which we regard as direetly in point and correctly decided. Our own decision of In re Kellogg, 121 F. 333, contains nothing to the contrary, for there the bankruptcy petition preceded the state suit. Where the state suit is first, this court has been in accord with others in forbidding, interference by the court of bankruptcy by summary proceedings. In re Iroquois Utilities, 297 F. 397 (C. C. A. 2); In re Rohrer, 177 F. 381 (C. C. A. 6); In re Farrell, 201 F. 338 (C. C. A. 6); In re Gillette Realty Co., 15 F.(2d) 193 (C. C. A. 9); Bryan v. Speakman, supra. See, also, 41 Yale L. J. 445, and eases thex-e cited.
Whether by appropriate proceedings in the foreclosure suit or by plenary action in a competent fonim, the trustee may still, despite the fox-eelosure decree, attack the title of the appellee, we need not now consider.
Order 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: 0