<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-05-02'>Monday, May 2,
  1853.</date> 
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Tazewell Circuit Court
  convenes. Lincoln, Jones, and Saltonstall, representing defendant in 
  <name type='case' key='L1101'>Crabb &amp; Walls v. Wallace</name>, before court
  September 15, 1852, enter motion to quash writ issued for want of declaration
  filed in season. Lincoln files defendant's plea in 
  <name type='case' key='L01183'>Smith v. Parmelee</name>. <bibl default='NO'>Record;
  Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-03'>Tuesday, May 3, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Motion entered yesterday in <name type='case' key='L01101'>Crabb &amp; Walls v. Wallace</name> is argued and denied. <name type='case' key='L01259'>Hamilton v. Pekin, Illinois</name>, and <name type='case' key='L01181'>Atchinson for use of Allen v. Pekin, Illinois</name>, before court September 22, 1852, are dismissed by agreement. In <name type='case' key='L01252'>Harris Lime Rock Co. v. Harris</name>, defendant defaults. Lincoln and Briggs are attorneys fo plaintiff. Plaintiff's damages are later fixed at $5,000.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-04'>Wednesday, May 4, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Moore and Lincoln lose assumpsit suit of <name type='case' key='L01191'>Wisner v. T. E. Sawyer &amp; Co.</name> when jury finds for plaintiff in amount of $391.90. Prettyman for plaintiff and Jones and Lincoln for defendant try ejectment case, <name type='case' key='L01149'>Reeves v. Wilkey</name> (see May 9, 1853). Defendant in <name type='case' key='L01182'>Smith v. Gaines</name> secures rule on Lincoln and Saltonstall to file bond for costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln telegraphs Mason Brayman, Springfield, Illinois Central 
attorney, that he "cannot go to Jonesboro."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A220' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mason Brayman</xref>, 4 May 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:194.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-05'>Thursday, May 5, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Defendant in <name type='case' key='L01182'>Smith v. Gaines</name> files plea of not guilty but Lincoln and Saltonstall win case when jury finds for plaintiff and assesses his damages at $100. Suit is action for trespass.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-06'>Friday, May 6, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Motions or pleas are filed in three cases in which Lincoln is retained&#8212;<name type='case' key='L01212'>Kellogg v. Flint</name>, <name type='case'>Snell v. Ludwig et al.</name>, and <name type='case' key='L01166'>Ruble v. Cashman</name>&#8212;but none comes to trial.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-07'>Saturday, May 7, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01166'>Ruble v. Cashman</name>, appeal, agrees to continuance.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-09'>Monday, May 9, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Parker win <name type='case' key='L01100'>Crittenden v. Sweeney</name>, trover and conversion, when jury finds for plaintiff in sum of $300. <name type='case' key='L01149'>Reeves v. Wilkey</name>, tried on 4th, is decided in favor of plaintiff. Third case is settled by agreement. With important rape case coming on for trial, court orders Lincoln to act as prosecutor for remainder of term.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes indictment of Thomas Delny for rape, signing "Lincoln atty Pro tem."
<bibl default='NO'>Indictment, May 1853, Tokyo Lincoln Center, Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-10'>Tuesday, May 10, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is prosecutor in <name type='case' key='L01235'>People v. Delny</name>. 
Defendant Thomas Delny is accused of raping seven-year-old girl. Jury brings in 
verdict of guilty and court sentences accused to penitentiary for 18 
years.
<bibl default='NO'>Order, 10 May 1853, General Record F, 547-48, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Tazewell County Courthouse, Pekin, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
"A mob came very near getting possession of the base wretch and hanging him."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois State Register</title>, 14 May 1853, 3:1.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01101'>Crabb &amp; Walls v. Wallace</name>, jury finds defendant, Lincoln's client, not guilty of detaining plaintiff's cattle.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-11'>Wednesday, May 11, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Fuller, attorney for plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01183'>Smith v. Parmelee</name>, enters nonsuit. Lincoln is attorney for defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes and files defendant's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L01210'>Flint v. Kellogg</name>, and writes court decree in <name type='case' key='L01781'>Jennings v. Woodford County, Illinois</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-05-12'>Thursday, May
  12, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> In 
  <name type='case' key='L01098'>Chapman v. Durham &amp; Durham</name>, Lincoln
  secures decree of foreclosure to satisfy debt of $149.40. Decree is in his
  handwriting. He also writes court order in <name type='case'>Doolittle et al.
  v. Reeves et al.</name>, chancery. <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
  Congress, Washington, DC; Record; Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes to
  Joshua R. Stanford regarding conveyance of two lots, holders of which are in
  danger of losing title unless Stanford's testimony will show that he made
  conveyance as attorney for former owner and accounted for proceeds of sale. 
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A221' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Joshua R. Stanford</xref>, 12 May 1853,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:194.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-13'>Friday, May 13, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln is for defendant in <name type='case' key='L01149'>Prettyman v. Stoltz</name>, which is continued on plaintiff's motion. In <name type='case' key='L01138'>Hatch v. Preston and Wightman</name> he writes bill of evidence and exceptions, has Judge Davis sign, and court adjourns.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-16'>Monday, May 16, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.5667, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Pekin, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[DeWitt Circuit Court begins its session at Clinton.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-17'>Tuesday, May 17, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Stuart and Moore, for defendant, move to dismiss <name type='case' key='L00515'>Barger v. Illinois Central RR</name>, appeal from assessment for damages for right of way. Lincoln and Swett, for plaintiff, resist motion, and it is overruled.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-19'>Thursday, May 19, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Murder case of <name type='case' key='L00630'>People v. Loe</name> comes to trial. Jury brings in verdict of manslaughter against Lincoln's client. Court sentences him to eight years in Alton penitentiary, three months to be served in solitary confinement and remainder at hard labor.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Four years later (August 18, 1857) Lincoln writes petition for pardon.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A448' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement on Petition for Pardon of Moses Loe</xref>, [18 August 1857], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:414.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-20'>Friday, May 20, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Moore lose <name type='case' key='L00554'>McCarrell v. Campbell et al.</name> when jury finds defendants guilty of trespass vi et armis and assesses plaintiff's damages at $50. In <name type='case' key='L00612'>Titus E. Sawyer &amp; Co. v. Hayworth et al.</name>, agreed judgment for $117.82 is entered for plaintiff, their client. Case is action in assumpsit.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-21'>Saturday, May 21, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L00655'>Harrold v. Montgomery et al.</name>, Moore, for defendants, files exceptions to complainants' depositions. After argument, exceptions are sustained. Lincoln and Gridley appear for complainants. Lincoln argues against motion by defendant to dissolve injunction in <name type='case' key='L00639'>Smallwood et al. v. Allen</name>. It is overruled. (See 18 October 1853, 21 October 1853.)
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-23'>Monday, May 23, 1853.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>?
</dateline>
         <p>
On motion, Post and Lincoln, attorneys for John Hanks, plaintiff, in <name type='case' key='L00450'>Hanks v. Hanks</name>, trespass, are given leave to amend their declaration.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Champaign Circuit Court convenes at Urbana.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-24'>Tuesday, May 24, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes plaintiff's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L01453'>Strong et al. v. Thomas et al.</name>, and lists 47 heirs in case.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[In Decatur, <name type='case' key='L00426'>Brown v. Peck &amp; Peck</name> is settled without trial. Lincoln's name on docket as defendants' attorney is crossed out and replaced by Thorpe, indicating that Lincoln is not present.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1853-05-25'>Wednesday, May 25, 1853.</date> 
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana,
  IL</place>? </dateline>
         <p> [Record of this term of Champaign Circuit Court
  does not give specific dates for various cases. Among other cases, he
  represents plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01374'>Illinois Central RR v.
  McGinnis</name>, appeal. Jury awards defendant $37.50 for damages sustained by
  construction of roadbed over his lands. (See June 4, 1853.) 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-26'>Thursday, May 26, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In evening Lincoln receives letter from G. B. Kinkead of Lexington, 
Ky., forwarded from Springfield by N. W. Edwards, which informs him 
that Oldham &amp; Hemingway, surviving partners of Oldham, Todd &amp; 
Co. of Lexington, have entered suit against Lincoln, Edwards, and 
Kinkead in Fayette Circuit Court, Ky. Their charge against Lincoln is 
that he failed to account for $472.54 he collected for them.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A222' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Kinkead</xref>, 27 May 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:194-95.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-27'>Friday, May 27, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Vermilion Circuit Court begins its session. Lincoln writes to Kinkead 
in great indignation over Oldham &amp; Hemingway suit: "I herewith 
inclose my answer. . . . I ask the Petitioners to be ruled to file a 
bill of particulars . . . to enable me to absolutely disprove the 
claim. . . . I know it is for <uLine>them</uLine> to prove their 
claim . . . but I am unwilling to trust the oath of any man, who 
either <uLine>made</uLine> or <uLine>prompted</uLine> the oath of the 
Petition." He writes and swears detailed answer to plaintiffs' 
petition.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A222' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George B. Kinkead</xref>, 27 May 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:194-95; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A223' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Answer to Petition of Edward Oldham and Thomas Hemingway</xref>, 27 May 1853, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:195-97.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln has several cases in court; all are dismissed or continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-28'>Saturday, May 28, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Lamon, representing defendants, lose three suits. In <name type='case' key='L02016'>Phelps v. Benedict</name>, appeal, plaintiff is awarded $38.75 damages; in <name type='case' key='L02017'>Prather v. Strain</name>, also appeal, damages are $7; in <name type='case' key='L01989'>People v. McCardle et al.</name>, jury finds defendants guilty of petit larceny and court fines them $5 each. Two other cases are continued and one is settled by agreement.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-30'>Monday, May 30, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01945'>Maddox v. Courtney et al.</name>, assumpsit, court renders judgment for plaintiff for $118.05, amount of his note, principal and interest. Lincoln and Lamon represent defendant. Court affirms judgment of lower court in <name type='case' key='L01904'>Furrow for use of Robinson &amp; Chenowith v. Barkman</name>, and awards plaintiff $43.89. Lincoln and Lamon are his attorneys.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1853-05-31'>Tuesday, May 31, 1853.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L02072'>Campbell v. Smith</name>, trespass, Lincoln, signing "Benedict, Lincoln &amp; Lamon," writes and files replication to defendant's pleas. Jury finds for plaintiff in amount of $45.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes court order.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>