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.
Topsfield is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,141 at the 2000 census. Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Topsfield.