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.
Kents Hill is an unincorporated village in the northwest corner of the town of Readfield, Maine, east of the town of Fayette, with which the village shares a zip code (04349). The village's name comes from the farmer who owned the land before Luther Sampson bought it to start Kents Hill School.