<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-05'>Monday, March 5, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The Sangamon County Circuit Court opens a two-week session with Judge Jesse
            B. Thomas Jr. presiding. Stuart &amp; Lincoln appear for New Salem storekeeper
            Samuel Hill in the attachment suit <name type='case' key='L03546'>Hill v.
               McNabb</name>. Under agreement of both parties, the court dismisses the case and
            orders the defendant to pay all court costs. The defendant confesses judgment in <name type='case' key='L03045'>Hickman v. Braucher</name>, and the court
            awards Stuart &amp; Lincoln's client $481.69 in damages. Representing defendant
            Joseph Kyle, Stuart &amp; Lincoln request the court to order the plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L04647'>Sinnard v. Kyle</name> to provide security
            for court costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-06'>Tuesday, March 6, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for an infant defendant
    in <name type='case' key='L04634'>Thayer v. Phillips et al.</name> Stuart
    &amp; Lincoln file the defendant's plea in <name type='case' key='L04647'>Sinnard v. Kyle</name>. Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the defendant in <name type='case' key='L03471'>Foster v. Cassidy</name> and the court allows the attorneys in the
    case to open depositions. Lincoln does most of paper work in these suits, and he also writes and
    signs a plea for the defendant in <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v.
     Ransdell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
     Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-03-07'>Wednesday, March 7, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court
  grants Stuart &amp; Lincoln permission to amend their bill of complaint in 
  <name type='case' key='L03044'>Hickman v. Braucher et
  ux.</name>, and they file letters of administration in the same case and in 
  <name type='case' key='L04793'>Dingman v. Dearing</name>. Stuart
  &amp; Lincoln file a certificate of publication in 
  <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et al.</name>
  The defendant in <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannon v.
  Kenney</name>, requests the court to order Stuart &amp; Lincoln's client, the
  plaintiff, to give security for court costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-08'>Thursday, March 8, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln lose <name type='case' key='L04798'>Ware v. Duncan et al.</name> when the court finds the defendant indebted to the
            plaintiff for $172.25. Stuart &amp; Lincoln file the defendant's plea in <name type='case' key='L04719'>Trowbridge v. Hughes</name>. After they
            request a continuance in <name type='case' key='L04461'>Roll v.
            Anderson</name> the court approves their motion. In <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name>, the court grants the defendant leave to
            open depositions. Stuart, Lincoln, and Logan represent the plaintiffs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-09'>Friday, March 9, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln participate in 23 cases before the Sangamon County
            Circuit Court. They obtain favorable judgments in nine cases totaling $3,045.17. They
            file the defendant's plea in five cases. The court continues five cases, dismisses two
            cases, and hears requests by the defendants to reverse judgment in two other cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In one case, Stuart &amp; Lincoln obtain a judgment of $203 in favor of
            their clients, James Anderson, John W. Anderson, and William Bell, in <name type='case' key='L02630'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v. Patterson &amp;
               Patterson</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-10'>Saturday, March 10, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the complainants, Noah Mason and Lucinda
            Mason, in <name type='case' key='L03940'>Mason v. Mason et al.</name> and
               <name type='case' key='L03941'>Mason v. Mason et al.</name>
            respectively, and they request permission of the court to amend the record in each
               case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-12'>Monday, March 12, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln, representing the plaintiffs, obtain a judgment of
            $860.48 by confession of one of the defendants, Alexander Garrett, in <name type='case' key='L02623'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v. H. Garrett &amp;
            Co.</name>. The court orders the clerk to issue a summons to the other defendant Henry
            Garrett. The court grants them leave to amend the bill of complaint in <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In the partition case, <name type='case' key='L03940'>Mason
               v. Mason et al.</name>, and the dower case <name type='case' key='L03941'>Mason v. Mason et al.</name>, Lincoln writes the commissioner's report
            partitioning the land in Noah Mason's estate and assigning dower to his widow, Lucinda
            Mason. The three commissioners later sign the report.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-14'>Wednesday, March 14, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In the murder case <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v.
               Truett</name>, the court appointed Stephen A. Douglas prosecuting attorney pro tem
            since the state's attoney, John D. Urquhart, was a witness. The defendant, Henry B.
            Truett, indicted for murder of Dr. Jacob M. Early, hired Stuart, Lincoln, Logan, Baker,
            and Cyrus Walker for the trial.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-15'>Thursday, March 15, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Levi Davis of Vandalia, apologizing for delay in attending
            to affairs of Davis' clients. He assures him no damage has been done by delay.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A132' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Levi
               Davis</xref>, 15 March 1838, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:116.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-03-16'>Friday,
  March 16, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the
  plaintiffs in two cases, <name type='case' key='L00874'>Reed v.
  Fleming</name> and <name type='case' key='L03322'>Goodacre v.
  Simpson</name>, that go to a jury. The jury fails to agree on a verdict in the
  first case and finds in favor of the defendant in the second case. The court
  gives Stuart &amp; Lincoln permission to amend their bill of complaint in 
  <name type='case' key='L03459'>Hart v. Hart et al.</name>, and
  Lincoln writes and files the judge's decree. The court continues two other
  Stuart &amp; Lincoln cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-17'>Saturday, March 17, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L03253'>Finley v. Finley</name>
            and <name type='case' key='L04885'>Winn v. Winn</name>, two divorce
            cases, Stuart &amp; Lincoln obtain divorces for complainants, Andrew Finley and John
            Winn respectively. The court rules in favor of Stuart &amp; Lincoln's clients in
            three chancery cases: <name type='case' key='L03044'>Hickman v. Braucher
               et ux.</name>, <name type='case' key='L04048'>Miller v. Chrisman et
               al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L02625'>Anderson, Bell
               &amp; Co. v. Garrett et ux.</name> The court orders Stuart &amp; Lincoln's
            client, Manely F. Cannon, to give security for costs in <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannon v. Kenney</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files court decrees in <name type='case' key='L04048'>Miller v. Chrisman et al.</name> and <name type='case' key='L04899'>Wilson v. Simpson et al.</name>, and the affidavit of William Goodacre
            in <name type='case' key='L03322'>Goodacre v. Simpson</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-18'>Sunday, March 18, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes for James Wright application to County Commissioners' Court
            for permit to build mill dam on Brush Creek.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A131' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Application Written for James
                  Wright</xref>, [March 1838], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:116.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-19'>Monday, March 19, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Morgan Circuit Court convenes at Jacksonville for two-week session. Judge
            Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., presides. Josiah Lamborn and firm of William Thomas &amp;
            William Brown have most cases. John J. Hardin and Murray McConnel are among term's
            leading lawyers.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-21'>Wednesday, March 21, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Henry B. Truett, the defendant in <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v. Truett</name>, indicted on March 14, 1838 for murder of Dr.
            Jacob M. Early, gives Stuart &amp; Lincoln each a promissory note for $250 for legal
            fees. Truett secures the notes with a mortgage on two sections of land in northern
            Sangamon County [now in Chester Township in Logan County].<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book M</title>, 412-13.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Stuart writes and files a petition for dower in <name type='case' key='L04116'>Musick v. Musick et al.</name>, and Lincoln fills out a
            summons form. They represent the complainant, widow Elizabeth Musick, in the case.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-22'>Thursday, March 22, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is one of 101 citizens of Springfield signing note for $16,666.67
            to state bank to enable town to pay second instalment of one third of $50,000 pledged in
            February 1837 to obtain capital.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A133' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Note for the Completion of the
                  State Capitol</xref>, 22 March 1838, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:116-17.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-03-26'>Monday, March 26, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [John T. Stuart and Stephen A. Douglas debate issues of their campaign for
            Congress in Jacksonville.<bibl default='NO'>Illinois Standard
               (Jacksonville), 31 March 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>