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.
Milford is a village in Milford Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,369 at the 2000 census. The origin of the village's name comes from its location where the Old Hubbard Trail forded the Sugar Creek and where a grist mill stood at the forde in 1836.