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:
B. CONSTANTINO AND SONS CO., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NEW AMSTERDAM CASUALTY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 11592.
United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.
July 3, 1956.
George B. Gillespie, Louis F. Gillespie and Frederick H. Stone, Springfield, 111., Gillespie, Burke & Gillespie, Springfield, 111., of counsel, for appellant.
A. M. Fitzgerald and Walter T. Day, Springfield, 111., for appellee.
Before FINNEGAN, SWAIM and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.
FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.
In its “Blanket Position Bond,” dated January 6, 1949, issued by New Amsterdam Casualty Company to its assured plaintiff, there is this critical language:
“Section 14. At the earliest practical moment, and at all events not later than fifteen days after discovery of any fraudulent or dishonest act on the part of any Employee by the Insured, or by any partner or officer thereof not in collusion with such Employee, the Insured shall give the Underwriter written notice thereof and within four months after such discovery shall file with the Underwriter affirmative proof of loss, itemized and duly sworn to, and shall upon request of the Underwriter render every assistance, not pecuniary, to facilitate the investigation and adjustment of any loss * * * ” (Italics added.)
Plaintiff, who employed between thirty and forty people, is a meat packing company engaged in buying, butchering, processing and selling meat and allied merchandise, suing to recover under the fidelity bond. By its multiple count complaint plaintiff alleged that during the months of April through September, 1952, losses were sustained through the fraudulent acts of Wallace Hess, William Clarence Haught, and Robert Chandler, its employees. Defendant offered no evidence below and does not deny it was notified by plaintiff on September 18, 1952, of certain discoveries made September 17, 1952. The requisite proof of loss, showing an inventory shortage of $9,604.57, was filed within the period set by the bond.
Asserting its affirmative defense that plaintiff breached bond section 14, defendant moved for a directed verdict and its motion was denied, as was its-original and amended motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, in the alternative for a new trial. From those adverse orders and the judgment entered on the jury’s verdict awarding damages to plaintiff on counts I, II and IV, defendant appeals.
Whether plaintiff complied with section 14 of the bond is the nub of this matter. Simply stated, defendant insists plaintiff, for some time prior to giving its notice, knew that an employee, Clarence Haught, had been misappropriating and taking meats, consequently urging the September notification was not given at the earliest practical moment. From the evidence heard by the jury, and counsel’s briefs, it is quite clear that plaintiff maintains it was engaged in determining if its inventory losses resulted from costing and accounting errors and difficulties, or from theft.' Once Haught was caught asporting plaintiff’s meats on September 17, 1952, notice to defendant followed the next day. But defendant presses upon us the theory that without a conflict in evidence, the district judge should have directed a verdict adverse to plaintiff, because it had knowledge of dishonest acts of employees as early as July 1, 1952, and of Haught’s specific dishonest acts “at least” by August 1, 1952.
Plaintiff’s suspicions were merely ges-. tating during the period when it was investigating shrinking gross or net profits as an inventory check. American Surety Co. v. Pauly, 1898, 170 U.S. 138, 18 S.Ct. 552, 42 L.Ed. 977. Prompt notice, followed plaintiff’s viable knowledge of the specific culprits and after their discovery.
We think the district court correctly received plaintiff’s exhibit 2 in evidence. When objecting to the admission of this exhibit, defense counsel stated it “was prepared from records and summaries we haven’t had an opportunity to examine.” (T.R. 65.) But from the record it is clear that defendant had the challenged auditor’s summary sometime before trial. We are satisfied this facet of defendant’s appeal is much too tenuous to deserve our elaborate rejection, especially since it attacked neither the accuracy nor underlying audit procedures.
With a record, clear, as this one, of reversible errors, we can only affirm the judgment and orders appealed.
Judgment 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