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.
Wellington is a city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. Located about 35 miles east of Kansas City, it is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The population was 784 at the 2000 census.