![LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph document signed ("Lincoln + Logan, for def[endant]s"), with acknowledgement of receipt ("S. J. Logan Atto[rney] for pla[nti]ff"), "In the Circuit Court of Sangamon County...Illinois," 1 August 1855. 1½ page, folio, WITH SOME 360 WORDS IN LINCOLN'S HAND, written in in clear, dark ink on pale blue legal paper, a few very discreet marginal repairs, affecting one letter.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2011/NYR/2011_NYR_02488_0155_000(lincoln_abraham_autograph_document_signed_with_acknowledgement_of_rece112453).jpg?w=1)
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph document signed ("Lincoln + Logan, for def[endant]s"), with acknowledgement of receipt ("S. J. Logan Atto[rney] for pla[nti]ff"), "In the Circuit Court of Sangamon County...Illinois," 1 August 1855. 1½ page, folio, WITH SOME 360 WORDS IN LINCOLN'S HAND, written in in clear, dark ink on pale blue legal paper, a few very discreet marginal repairs, affecting one letter.
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph document signed ("Lincoln + Logan, for def[endant]s"), with acknowledgement of receipt ("S. J. Logan Atto[rney] for pla[nti]ff"), "In the Circuit Court of Sangamon County...Illinois," 1 August 1855. 1½ page, folio, WITH SOME 360 WORDS IN LINCOLN'S HAND, written in in clear, dark ink on pale blue legal paper, a few very discreet marginal repairs, affecting one letter.
LINCOLN AND A LAWSUIT OVER COW MANURE. A very attractive legal, very indicative of the often mundane legal work comprising the small-town law practice of the future President. The subject of the lawsuit concerns an unspecified quantity of cow manure. In the case of Michael Tinney vs Frederick, Emwell and William Ingevessen, Lincoln, as plaintiff's attorney, requests "a commission to take the deposition of Frederick and Amelia Ingevessen," who currently reside in Wisconsin. In 1854 and 1855 the Ingevessens had resided from 1854 to 1855 in an Illinois farm owned by Tinney. Their testimony, taken in absentia, is "to be read in evidence in the trial." The lawsuit concerns whether or not the defendants, while renting Tinney's farm, "did or not have and spread on the meadows, the manure about the stable and in the stable yards..."
Lincoln's interrogatories, 6 in number, begin with the question "What is your name?," and progress to more substantive queries regarding the lease of the farm and the deposition of the large quantity of cow manure generated by the farm's livestock. Of additional interest, Lincoln's opponent in the case was Stephen T. Logan (1800-1890), Lincoln's second law partner, from 1841 to 1844. Logan, like Lincoln, was interested in politics, and just a year after this case, Logan ran unsuccessfully for judge of the state supreme court, prompting Lincoln's quip that Logan "was worse beaten than any other man ever was since elections were invented."
LINCOLN AND A LAWSUIT OVER COW MANURE. A very attractive legal, very indicative of the often mundane legal work comprising the small-town law practice of the future President. The subject of the lawsuit concerns an unspecified quantity of cow manure. In the case of Michael Tinney vs Frederick, Emwell and William Ingevessen, Lincoln, as plaintiff's attorney, requests "a commission to take the deposition of Frederick and Amelia Ingevessen," who currently reside in Wisconsin. In 1854 and 1855 the Ingevessens had resided from 1854 to 1855 in an Illinois farm owned by Tinney. Their testimony, taken in absentia, is "to be read in evidence in the trial." The lawsuit concerns whether or not the defendants, while renting Tinney's farm, "did or not have and spread on the meadows, the manure about the stable and in the stable yards..."
Lincoln's interrogatories, 6 in number, begin with the question "What is your name?," and progress to more substantive queries regarding the lease of the farm and the deposition of the large quantity of cow manure generated by the farm's livestock. Of additional interest, Lincoln's opponent in the case was Stephen T. Logan (1800-1890), Lincoln's second law partner, from 1841 to 1844. Logan, like Lincoln, was interested in politics, and just a year after this case, Logan ran unsuccessfully for judge of the state supreme court, prompting Lincoln's quip that Logan "was worse beaten than any other man ever was since elections were invented."