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.
Lafferty is an unincorporated community in northeastern Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio, United States, along Wheeling Creek. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43951. Lafferty has one church, had two railroad tracks and has a moose lodge, and it had a movie theater back in the 1930's. Lafferty is part of the Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.