Thornber v. City of Fort Walton Beach

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “That an appellate court may not consider matters outside the record is so elemental there is no excuse for an attorney to attempt to bring such matters before the court.”
• “It is axiomatic that appellate review is confined to the record on appeal.”
• \An appellate court will not consider evidence that was not presented to the lower tribunal because the function of an appellate court is to determine whether the lower tribunal committed error based on the issues and evidence before it.\
• “This rule is intended to assure that any portion of the record before the lower tribunal which is material to a decision by the court be made available to the court so that appellate proceedings will be decided on their merits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).