<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-05-02'>Wednesday, May 2, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='40.3833, -90.1500' teiForm='name'>Lewistown,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>In the Fulton County Circuit Court,
  Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent plaintiffs James Atwood, John M. Atwood, and
  John P. White in the case of <name type='case' key='L00886'>Atwood &amp; Co. v.
  Shinn &amp; Vittum</name>. Lincoln writes and signs a bond for costs. Lincoln
  also writes a notice informing the defendants of the plaintiffs' intentions to
  take the depositions of several individuals, and to use the depositions as
  evidence in the case. Lincoln signs the document, "Stuart &amp; Lincoln."
  <bibl default='NO'>Bond for Costs, 2 May 1838, <ital>Atwood &amp; Co. v. Shinn &amp;
  Vittum</ital>, case file 624; Notice to Take Depositions, 2 May 1838,
  <ital>Atwood &amp; Co. v. Shinn &amp; Vittum</ital>, case file 624, both in
  Fulton County Circuit Court, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, Western
  Illinois University, Macomb, IL. </bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-05'>Saturday, May 5, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The <title>Sangamo Journal</title> announces: "Our bills
            for McLean County are made out, and settlement can be made with A. Lincoln, Esq. who
            will be present at the term of the Circuit Court in Bloomington next week."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 5 May 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-07'>Monday, May 7, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The McLean County Circuit Court opens a six-day session. On the docket are
            7 criminal, 16 chancery, and 352 common law cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-05-08'>Tuesday,
  May 8, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> A jury awards Lincoln's client, Josiah Horr, $38 in damages in 
  <name type='case' key='L01653'>Horr v. Frankinburger</name>. The
  case involves trespassing on timber land.<bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee
  book</title>.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> "Sangamo Journal" gives him bills due
  in Bloomington and announces that all who wish to pay should call on Lincoln at
  court house.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 5 May 1838.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-09'>Wednesday, May 9, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> of the infant
    defendants in <name type='case' key='L01682'>Rhodes &amp; Walter v. Dean et
     al.</name>, a foreclosure case. The children are the minor heirs of Merit Lyon, deceased.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-10'>Thursday, May 10, 1838.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [During week Lincoln debates issues of congressional campaign with Douglas.
            Stuart is ill and Lincoln substitutes for him.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Bloomington Pantagraph</title>, 12 March 1898.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-14'>Monday, May 14, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln attends opening of two-day term of the Macon County Circuit Court
            with Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr. presiding. In the evening he drives John Hanks' team of
            horses to the Hanks farm and stays the night. Hanks is serving on petit jury.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Papers, 1939, 135.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes a bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L00466'>Noe v. Cunningham</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Otto R.
               Kyle, <title>Abraham Lincoln in Decatur</title> (New York: Vantage,
               1957), 46.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-15'>Tuesday, May 15, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for the infant heirs of
    John Lowry, deceased, in <name type='case' key='L00474'>Ex parte Lowry</name>.
    Lowry, the administrator of the estate of John Lowry, has filed a petition for the sale of real
    estate. The court rules against Lincoln's client, Little Berry Noe, in <name type='case' key='L00466'>Noe v. Cunningham</name> and awards the defendant $22 in
     damages.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-21'>Monday, May 21, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The Cass County Circuit Court meets at Beardstown for a two-day term with
            Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr. presiding.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-05-25'>Friday, May 25, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Cyrus Edwards, Whig candidate for governor, speaks in Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 26 May 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>