On January 22, 1852, Lincoln writes to Hezekiah Morse Wead, Lewistown attorney, about case in federal court. "We finished arguing, and submitted the case yesterday afternoon, and it is not yet decided. We had a two days trial of it." He is in U.S. Circuit Court. Abraham Lincoln to Hezekiah M. Wead, 22 January 1852, CW, 2:117.