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:
JENKINS v. AMERICAN ENKA CORPORATION.
No. 4279.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
April 5, 1938.
Vonno L. Gudger, of Asheville, N. C., for appellant.
W. C. Meekins and J. Bat Smathers, both of Asheville, N. C. (S. G. Bernard, of Asheville, N. C., on the brief), for appellee.
Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.
NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.
This is an action at law brought by the appellant John E. Jenkins, here referred to as the plaintiff, in the general county court of Buncombe county, North Carolina, against the appellee, American Enka Corporation, a Delaware corporation, here referred to as the defendant. The object of .the action was to recover damages for injuries to plaintiff alleged to have been caused by the negligence of defendant’s officials.
In February, 1937, on motion of the defendant, the cause was removed to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina. The defendant filed an answer to the complaint pleading the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act, Pub.Acts N.C.1929, c. 120, as amended, in abatement of plaintiff’s alleged cause of action .and in bar of the plaintiff’s right to recover. A hearing wa.s had on the. 26th day of July, 1937, and the judge sustained the defendant’s plea in bar and abatement and entered an order dismissing the action with costs to the defendant. From this action of the court below this appeal was brought.
The defendant corporation owned and operated a rayon manufacturing plant at Enka, North Carolina, and the plaintiff worked in the plant from April 27, 1934, to January 5, 1935. In his complaint plaintiff alleged that his health became seriously and permanently impaired because of the unhealthy working conditions in defendant’s plant, conditions which were known and could have been prevented by proper care, and that he was not cautioned or warned as to these conditions and their probable effect on his health. Defendant in its answer denied that the working conditions were unhealthy and set up the fact that plaintiff, in his,written application for employment, had agreed to be bound by the terms of the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act and that act furnished him the sole and only remedy for any damage he may have suffered.
While the decisions of the Supreme Court of North Carolina are somewhat conflicting as to whether a disease of the character alleged to have been contracted by the plaintiff, while in the defendant’s employment, is compensable, a study of the opinions of that court in the cases of McNeely v. Carolina Asbestos Company, 206 N.C. 568, 174 S.E. 509; Swink v. Carolina Asbestos Company, 210 N.C. 303, 186 S.E. 258; Conrad v. Cook-Lewis Foundry Company, 198 N.C. 723, 153 S.E. 266, and Lee v. American Enka Corporation, 212 N.C. 455, 461, 193 S.E. 809, leads us to the conclusion that under these decisions the injuries of the plaintiff, if any, were compensable under the North Carolina Workmen’s Compensation Act. In any event, the Supreme Court of North Carolina has consistently held that the rights and remedies given an employee under that act excluded all other remedies against his employer for the negligence of the employer. Pilley v. Greenville Cotton Mills, 201 N.C. 426, 160 S.E. 479; Francis v. Carolina Wood Turning Company, 208 N.C. 517, 181 S.E. 628; Lee v. American Enka Corporation, supra.
The Workmen’s Compensation Act of North Carolina has been held to be constitutional by the Supreme »Court of that state. Lee v. American Enka Corporation, supra; Hanks v. Southern Public Utilities Company, 204 N.C. 155, 167 S.E. 560; Heavner v. Lincolnton, 202 N.C. 400, 162 S.E. 909; Hagler v. Mecklenburg Highway Commission, 200 N.C. 733, 158 S.E. 383.
The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the constitutionality of similar compensation acts. Middleton v. Texas Power & Light Company, 249 U.S. 152, 39 S.Ct. 227, 63 L.Ed. 527; Lower Vein Coal Company v. Industrial Board, 255 U.S. 144, 41 S.Ct. 252, 65 L.Ed. 555; Mountain Timber Co. v. Washington, 243 U.S. 219, 37 S.Ct. 260, 61 L.Ed. 685, Ann. Cas.l917D, 642; Ward & Gow v. Krinsky, 259 U.S. 503, 42 S.Ct. 529, 66 L.Ed. 1033, 28 A.L.R. 1207; R. E. Sheehan Co. v. Shuler, 265 U.S. 371, 44 S.Ct. 548, 68 L.Ed. 1061, 35 A.L.R. 1056; Cudahy Packing Co. v. Parramore, 263 U.S. 418, 44 S.Ct. 153, 68 L.Ed. 366, 30 A.L.R. 532.
In the case of Murphy v. American Enka Corporation, 213 N.C. 218, 195 S.E. 536, recently decided, the Supreme Court of North Carolina, in discussing the principles controlling here, holds that the failure of the employee to reject the Workmen’s Compensation Act, is a waiver of his right to maintain an action for damages against his employer for an injury caused by its negligence and further holds that certain occupational diseases come within the purview of the compensation act.
The action of the court below in holding that plaintiff’s sole remedy was under the Workmen’s Compensation Act was right, and the order complained of is affirmed.
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: 1