Practicing in the Appellate Courts is for the purpose of reviewing trial court judgments to correct of errors committed by the trial court, development of the law, achieve a uniform approach across courts, and the pursuit of justice, more generally. Appellate courts are not a forum to make a new case, but instead they determine if the rulings and judgment of the court below were made correctly.
Colby, advertised as "The Oasis on the Plains", is the county seat of and largest city in Thomas County, Kansas, United States with a total population of 5,450 as of the 2000 census.