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.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant. Consider the following categories: "not ascertained", "poor + wards of state" (e.g., patients at state mental hospital; not prisoner unless specific indication that poor), "presumed poor" (e.g., migrant farm worker), "presumed wealthy" (e.g., high status job - like medical doctors, executives of corporations that are national in scope, professional athletes in the NBA or NFL; upper 1/5 of income bracket), "clear indication of wealth in opinion", "other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy" (e.g., public school teachers, federal government employees)." Note that "poor" means below the federal poverty line; e.g., welfare or food stamp recipients. There must be some specific indication in the opinion that you can point to before anyone is classified anything other than "not ascertained". Prisoners filing "pro se" were classified as poor, but litigants in civil cases who proceed pro se were not presumed to be poor. Wealth obtained from the crime at issue in a criminal case was not counted when determining the wealth of the criminal defendant (e.g., drug dealers).

Opinion:
Jack C. VAUGHAN, v. CITY BANK & TRUST COMPANY, NATCHEZ, MISS.
No. 15163.
United States Court of Appeals. Fifth Circuit.
Jan. 28, 1955.
Rehearing Denied March 17, 1955.
Jack C. Vaughan, in pro. per.
R. Brent Forman, Natchez, Miss., for appellee.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, BORAH, Circuit Judge, and DAW-KINS, District Judge.
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Acting for and representing himself, plaintiff brought this suit, to recover of defendant $10,416.95 which plaintiff paid it and $250,000.00’ as damages for defendant’s having wrongfully caused to be published a notice of trustee’s sale of property on. which plaintiff had given a deed of trust, and to cancel and set aside said deed of trust.
The proceedings set out below followed, and plaintiff on June 9, 1954, giving notice of appeal “from the following orders of this court in this cause, to-wit, order of Nov. 20, 1953 * * * and (2) final order of May 17, 1954, dismissing the action” is here seeking their reversal.
The appellee moves to dismiss the appeal from both orders. As to the order of Nov. 20, 1953, which overruled the motion to reconsider the order of Oct. 19, 1953, overruling plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, he insists that it was not a final order and therefore was unappealable, as was the order of Oct. 19th itself. He further insists that if the order of November 20th was appealable, the appeal was not filed in time.
In support of his motion to dismiss the appeal as to the order of May 17, 1954, pointing out that this order was entered at the request of plaintiff, and citing many cases in support, he insists that it is a voluntary dismissal and, being therefore a consent decree, it is not an order from which plaintiff can appeal.
As to the order of November 20, 1953, we agree with appellee that, for the reasons put forward by it, the order was not an appealable one, and the attempted appeal from it must be dismissed.
As to the dismissal order of May 17, 1954, however, while we are of the clear opinion that it was entered properly and advisedly and no error requiring its reversal has been made to appear, we are also of the opinion that the order was a final and appealable one, and the motion to dismiss the appeal from it must be, and it is, denied.
It is true that upon its face the dismissal of the action appears to have been voluntary rather than involuntary, an order invited and consented to rather than one entered in invitum. The record taken as a whole, however, shows plainly that appellant took the course he did not for the purpose and with the intent of voluntarily discontinuing his action, but to obtain an involuntary dismissal within the rule of Ruff v. Gay, 5 Cir., 67 F.2d 684 and Weeks v. Fidelity & Cas. Co., 5 Cir., 218 F.2d 503, and that the order was in reality, and should be regarded as, an involuntary dismissal for want of prosecution and therefore a final judgment from which plaintiff could appeal. Cf. Milton v. U. S., 5 Cir., 120 F.2d 794, 795; Cybur Lbr. Co. v. Eckhard, 5 Cir., 247 F. 284; Marks v. Leo Feist, Inc., 2 Cir., 8 F.2d 460.
When it comes, however, to appellant’s position, that he was entitled to a summary judgment on his pleadings, and could and would stand on them and refuse further to prosecute his suit and the court erred in dismissing it, the matter stands quite differently.
It is perfectly clear, we think, that there is no merit in plaintiff’s position and that the court did not err in dismissing his suit for want of prosecution. Putting to one side, therefore, appellee’s claim that the court should have dismissed the action for the failure of plaintiff’s complaint to state a claim, though it is difficult to find in it any legal basis for his demands, we think it quite clear beyond any question that there was no basis whatever for his claim that he was entitled on his pleadings to a summary judgment, and the district judge erred in not rendering such a judgment in his favor. On this record the court had no alternative to dismissing his suit.
The judgment was right. It is affirmed.
. The original bill of complaint was filed in the district court, on March 20, 1953, and on April 17, plaintiff filed a . motion for summary judgment.
Thereafter on Sept. 17, 1953, the district judge, by letter, advised the parties that it was his intention to overrule the motion for summary judgment, and on Sept. 25, 1953, plaintiff filed a motion to reconsider the motion for summary judgment.
On October 5, 1953, the answer of defendant was filed, and on October 13, 1953, a motion was filed by plaintiff to strike the defendant’s answer.
On Oct. 19, 1953, the order overruling the motion for summary judgment was filed.
On November 20, 1953, an Order was issued overruling the plaintiff’s motion to reconsider the summary judgment, and also overruling the plaintiff’s motion to strike the defendant’s answer.
On May 12, 1954, an instrument was filed by plaintiff stating that he did not intend to take any further steps in the prosecution of his cause and asking that the cause be dismissed.
On May 17, 1954, an order of dismissal was entered by the court in response to plaintiff’s request.
. Capella v. Zurich General Acc. Lib. Ins. Co., 5 Cir., 194 F.2d 558; Smails v. O'Omalley, 8 Cir., 127 F.2d 410; Lake City, Nettleton & Bay Road v. Luehrmann, 8 Cir., 113 F.2d 458; Marks v. Leo Feist, Inc., 2 Cir., 8 F.2d 460; U. S. v. Babbitt, 104 U.S. 767, 26 L.Ed. 921.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant?

Choices:
not ascertained
poor + wards of state
presumed poor
presumed wealthy
clear indication of wealth in opinion
other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy

Answer: 5