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Lot Number: 43
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Logan & Lincoln Law Partnership Awarded $100 Payment for Their Successful Defense in a Famous Murder Trial |
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(ABRAHAM LINCOLN & STEPHEN T. LOGAN) Law Partners in Springfield, Illinois. January 5, 1846-Dated, original Partially-Printed Document being a Writ to the Sheriff of Sangamon County, Illinois, written in the hand of, and Signed by, “John Calhoun” as Clerk of the County Court of Sangamon County, 1-page, measuring 12” x 7.5” fully completed, Choice very Fine. This Document ordering him to collect from the property of the Executor of the Estate of William Trailor, now deceased, $100 plus expenses and interest, which had been awarded to the former Law Partnership of “Logan & Lincoln”, against him, in an action of Assumpsit (for breach of contract or promise), plus interest & costs. “Logan & Lincoln” stated Three times, plus their full names, “Stephen T. Logan and Abraham Lincoln”.Abraham Lincoln & Stephen T. Logan were law partners in Springfield from 1841 until 1844, when the partnership was amicably resolved when Logan decided to bring his son into the firm. Lincoln went on to form a new law partnership with William Herndon, 1844-1861. This original Document is related to one of the more famous Murder Trials which attorney Abraham Lincoln defended - In 1841, Logan & Lincoln defended William Trailor (1791-1842), a Warren County farmer and his brother Archibald, accused of murdering Archibald Fisher. They were falsely accused by their brother Henry, who confessed under threats, claiming his brothers committed the murder, and that he only helped dispose of the body in the woods. After much searching, no physical body was ever found, but at the trial, Abraham Lincoln called a witness that stopped the trial in its tracks - a physician who had been treating Fisher for a few years for a head injury that left him confused, and with memory loss, and to everyone's surprise, the alleged “murdered” person was alive and living with the doctor! William Trailor died less than a year after the trial. Abe Lincoln later wrote a story about the case, originally titled, "A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder". The transcription of the Document reads, in full. “THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, TO THE SHERIFF OF SANGAMON COUNTY - GREETINGS We command you that of the goods, chattels, lands and tenements which were of William Trailor deceased in the Hands of James D. Smith Executor of said deceased to be administered, late of your County, you cause to be made the sum of one hundred dollars which Stephen T. Logan and Abraham Lincoln late partners doing business under the style & firm of Logan & Lincoln lately in our Circuit Court of Sangamon County, have recovered against him for Damages in an action of Assumpsit with legal interest thereon from the 19th day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five until paid; also seven dollars which were adjudged to them in our Circuit Court, for costs and charges about their suit, in that behalf expended, whereof the said James D. Smith Executor of William Trailor Deceased is convicted, as appears to us of record; and that you have the money at the Clerk's Office, of our said Court at Springfield, ninety days after the date hereof, to render the said Logan & Lincoln their Damages, interest and costs as aforesaid; and have you then and there this writ. --- WITNESS, JOHN CALHOUN, Clerk of our said Court at Springfield, this 5th day of January A.D. 1846 ---- (Signed) J. Calhoun, CLERK”. -- Docket on back reads, in full: “No. / Logan & Lincoln / Fifa vs. James D. Smith Es'r of Mr. Trailor dec'd Damages - $100.00 / Int. Nov. 19/45 / Cash 7.00 / Def't Cost 21.48” |
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Lot Number: 43
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