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:
SMITH v. DOYLE (two cases).
Nos. 6996, 6997.
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Decided May 23, 1938.
Henry I. Quinn, William T. Hannan, and Richard W. Galiher, all of Washington, D. C., for appellants.
Alvin L. Newmyer and David G. Bress, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.
Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
The plaintiff Doyle sued as administrator for the deaths of Charlotte B. Pogue and her husband, Robert E. Pogue, which resulted from a collision of two automobiles at the corner of 41st and Harrison Streets in Washington, D. C. Robert Pogue was driving the car in which Charlotte Pogue was riding. A separate action was brought on behalf of each against Damaris Smith, who drove the other car, and against her father, Lybrand P. Smith. All four actions were consolidated for trial. Those on behalf of Robert E. Pogue resulted in judgments for the defendants. Those on behalf of Charlotte Pogue resulted in a separate judgment for the plaintiff against each defendant, father and daughter, and each has appealed.
The Pogue car was going west on Harrison Street. Mr. Pogue was in a hurry and drove through a stop sign. The Smith car was going south on 41st Street. The driver, appellant Damaris Smith, and her sister were on their way to a party. Their father, appellant Lybrand Smith, was not with them. The sister was not present at the trial. Damaris Smith testified, but not concerning the collision. She had lost all memory of it, in consequence of a severe concussion.
Appellants urge that there was no evidence of negligence on the part of Damaris Smith, and that the court should therefore have directed verdicts for both defendants. They urge also that the court erroneously admitted evidence to their prejudice. The judgment against Lybrand P. Smith rests upon the “family-purpose” doctrine, and he contends that there was no evidence to support a finding that he maintained the car for family purposes.
Although they do not refer to, the matter in their brief, appellants excepted to the admission of the testimony of the only available eyewitness that appellants’ car was “moving fast.” Such evidence is usually allowed. Cases are collected in I Wigmore, Evidence (2d ed., 1923) § 571; 4 Id. § 1977. Normal persons frequently form impressions of the sort with regard to passing cars, and these impressions have meaning and value. It would be arbitrary to exclude them, at least when, as here, speedometer readings and the like are not available. Appellants excepted, also, to the testimony of a witness who heard but did' not see their car, that he could tell from the sound of a Ford V-8 whether the motor was going slow, ordinarily, or fast, and that theirs was traveling at a rather- high rate of speed just before the accident. Appellants contend that inexpert testimony to speed, based on sound alone, is inadmissible, and cite cases which tend more or less in that direction. Laubach v. Colley, 283 Pa. 366, 129 A. 88; Johnson v. Wilson, Ind.App., 200 N.E. 729, reversed on other grounds, Ind.Sup., 5 N.E.2d 533; Challinor v. Axton, 246 Ky. 76, 54 S.W.2d 600 (all automobile cases); Campbell v. St. Louis & Suburban Ry. Co., 175 Mo. 161, 75 S.W. 86. To the opposite effect are Nesbit v. Crosby, 74 Conn. 554, 565, 51 A. 550 (horse); Bennett v. Central California Traction Co., 115 Cal.App. 1, 1 P.2d 47 (street car); Van Horn v. B., C. R. & N. Ry. Co., 59 Iowa 33, 12 N.W. 752, and Missouri Pac. Ry. v. Hildebrand, 52 Kan. 284, 34 P. 738 (train). In the Nesbit Case the court said: “It is no objection to the question that the judgment called for was one based upon the exercise of the sense of hearing and not of sight. The law makes no such distinction between the senses.” 74 Conn. 565, 51 A. 554. In the Bennett case the court said that it “is common-knowledge possessed by every intelligent person, that the sound made by rapidly moving vehicles differs very materially from that made by those moving slowly, and that this fact is brought home to every one who walks the streets of our cities and hears the sound of passing vehicles.” 115 Cal.App. 9, 10, 1 P.2d 51.
But we need not rule upon this point for even if there was error in the admission of the speed testimony to which-appellants objected, it was harmless. We are to decide t|ie appeal “without regard ■to technical errors, defects, or exceptions which do not affect the substantial rights of the parties.” 40 Stat. 1181, c. 48; 28 U.S.C.A. § 391. “A system of necessary-rules of Evidence can exist and be obeyed, without affixing indiscriminately to every contravention of them the monstrous penalty of a new trial.” I Wigmore, Evidence (2d ed., 1923), § 21. Several witnesses who were not on the street but in an adjoining house, and heard but did not see appellant’s car, testified without objection that their attention was attracted by its “roar,” which one of them called “much louder” than the ordinary noises of cars; that they heard the collision almost instantly, or “just a split second” after they first heard the approach of the car, although it had to traverse at least forty feet; and that the noise of the collision was very loud — one witness said, “like dropping a ton of plate glass off the Washington Monument.” There was also testimony, based on sound, that the brakes were applied to appellants’ car some forty feet north of the intersection. In view of all this evidence of speed, which was admitted without objection, the merely cumulative items to which appellants objected are unimportant and their admission, even if erroneous, was not so prejudicial as to require reversal. Harris v. United States, 50 App.D.C. 139, 269 F. 481; Belisle v. Lisk, 1 Cir., 16 F.2d 261; Reid v. Baker, 9 Cir., 288 F. 969.
We think the testimony we have summarized disposes also of the contention that the trial court should have directed a verdict in favor of appellant Damaris Smith. We think it supports, though it does not require, the conclusion that she drove at an illegal and negligent speed, and that this was a cause of the collision. Cf. Goodyear Service, Inc., v. Pretzfelder, 65 App.D.C. 389, 393, 84 F.2d 242. The inference is further supported by the testimony that practically the whole right side of the Pogue car was caved in. As the negligence of Mr. Pogue 'cannot be imputed to Mrs. Pogue, it follows that her administrator may recover against Miss Smith.
The court instructed the jury that “As to the cases in which her father is defendant, * * * the essential elements .are, first that the father maintained the car for family purposes, for the convenience of the members of his family, and that the car on this occasion was being used in the furtherance of the purpose. * * * ” We think this a fair statement of the “family-purpose” or “family-car” doctrine, which “holds the owner of an automobile which was purchased and maintained for the pleasure of his or her family, liable for injuries inflicted by the machine while it was being used by members of the family for their own pleasure.” 64 A.L.R. 844. The doctrine has been adopted in many, though by no means all, American jurisdictions. 88 A.L.R. 601; 100 A.L.R. 1021. This court in Hardy v. Smith, 63 App.D.C. 44, 68 F.2d 992, imposed responsibility for an accident upon a father who owned a car and had turned it over to his son for the son’s use in going to school and otherwise. The son was driving it to school when he struck the plaintiff. Cf. Turoff v. Burch, 60 App.D.C. 221, 50 F.2d 986; Moody v. Stephens, 55 Wash.L.R. 100.
Appellant Lybrand Smith, in his plea, admitted that he owned the car but denied that he provided it for family purposes. Damaris Smith testified that the car was bought in her father’s name, but that she and her sister gave him the money, out of their savings, to buy it for them; that they bought it for their own use to go to American University, about two miles from their home, and used it for that purpose, though of course it was understood the family could use it if they wanted to; that her mother drove the car occasionally to shop; that her father “very seldom” drove the car, because he “had a car of his own;” that the other car was a roadster, and the family used the Ford involved in the collision only if they went together; that her father used the other car for business only, and this Ford more for the family use; that it was used for family purposes. At the time of the accident witness was driving the car to go with her sister to a party-. According to this testimony, the father was merely the purchaser and legal owner of a car which the daughters caused to be bought with their own money for their own purposes. There was no contrary testimony. There was no evidence that the father put a dollar into the purchase of the car, or took any part in the decision to buy it, or decided who should drive it or to what uses it should be put. There was no evidence that he ever “maintained” it in any sense, to any extent, for any purpose.
It follows, in our opinion, that there was no evidence to support the judgment against him. We know of no case in which, without a statute, a merely formal owner of a car has been held liable in circumstances like these. In Hanson v. Eilers, 164 Wash. 185, 2 P.2d 719, in which the father was held liable, it was found that he bought the car for the special use of the son whose negligence caused the accident., In the absence of anything to limit that finding, it means that he bought the car with his own money and decided what should be done with it. That case is much like Hardy v. Smith, supra. In Cewe v. Schuminski, 182 Minn. 126, 127, 233 N.W. 805, a husband bought and made the down payment on the car which he was driving at the time of a collision. Title, was taken in the wife’s name; the car was registered in her name, and she signed a chattel mortgage to secure the unpaid balance of the price. The court held that the wife was not liable under the family-purpose doctrine, since the transaction was not hers in substance, and her husband “procured, furnished, and maintained the car for whatever use anybody made of it. * * * Her- passive holding of title was not enough to charge her with liability for her husband’s lethal negligence.” (page 806) In Wyant v. Phillips, 116 W.Va. 207, 179 S.E. 303, a wife, who owned the car, was held liable for her husband’s negligent driving, notwithstanding the fact that he paid for its upkeep and operation; but her ownership was no mere form, for the car, instead of being paid for by the husband, had been given to the wife by her father. The family-car doctrine rests upon the ideas that the owner of the car puts it into circulation, and that he is more likely than the driver to be financially responsible. Both ideas lose most of their force when, as in the present case, the driver provides the money with which the nominal owner makes the purchase.
The collision occurred on October 5, '1934, before the Automobile Financial Responsibility Law, which we applied in Forrester v. Jerman, 67 App.D.C. 167, 90 F.2d 412, went into effect. Act of May 3, 1935, 49 Stat. 167, c. 89, § 3; Act'of August 24, 1937, 50 Stat. 751, c. 753; D.C. Code, Supp.1937, tit. 6, § 255b. By its express terms, therefore, that act is inapplicable.
The judgment against Damaris Smith is affirmed. The judgment against Lybrand P. Smith is reversed.
No. 6997 affirmed.
No. 6996 reversed.
Old Dominion Stages, Inc., v. Connor, 67 App.D.C. 158, 90 F.2d 403.

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.

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Answer: 0