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.
Durham is an unincorporated community in southern Lewis County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Route 6 about ten miles southwest of La Grange. The community was founded in 1876 and is named after a railroadman of that name. Durham is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.