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<date value='1856-01-07'>Monday, January 7, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> [The Illinois Supreme Court convenes in Springfield. Justice John D. Caton is not present on
the first day of court due to weather delays. He arrives two days later. A local newspaper
notes, however, that "A full quota of lawyers are already in attendance, from the different
parts of the Division." <bibl default='NO'>
<title>Daily Illinois State Journal</title> (Springfield), 9 January 1856, 3:1; John M. Palmer,
ed., <title>The Bench and Bar of Illinois</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing
Company, 1899), 1:39-41.</bibl>] </p>
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<date value='1856-01-08'>Tuesday, January 8, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln, representing defendants in error, enters motion for rehearing in <name type='case' key='L01001'>Edmunds v. Mayers & Mayers</name> in Supreme Court. In this case, heard February 3, 1855, court decided against Lincoln's clients. Involved were patent rights to cradle which, "being wound up, would rock itself until it run down, and to save the continual labor to mothers and nurses, of rocking the cradle." Lincoln's motion is denied.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; 16 Ill. 207.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-11'>Friday, January 11, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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James F. Joy, representing Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Co., files in Supreme Court application for mandamus commanding Isaac
G. Wilson, judge of 13th Circuit, to appoint commissioners to
appraise property in Aurora which railroad wants for shops, stations,
etc. He urges Lincoln, resisting application, to take up motion as
soon as possible. Lincoln is not ready, and gets off until the 14th.
<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%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 16 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:328-29.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-12'>Saturday, January 12, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln spends day preparing his argument in mandamus case.
<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%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 16 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:328-29.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-13'>Sunday, January 13, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Again Lincoln spends entire day in case of <name type='case' key='L02355'>Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy RR v. Wilson</name>.
<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%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 16 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:328-29.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-14'>Monday, January 14, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Day is taken up with arguments in mandamus case. Lincoln writes
Charles Hoyt, one of Aurora property owners: "We occupied the whole
day, I using the larger part. I made every point, and used every
authority sent me by yourself & by Mr. Goodrich; and, in
addition, all the points I could think of, and all the authorities I
could find myself. . . . I do not think I could ever have argued the
case better than I did."
<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%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 16 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:328-29.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-16'>Wednesday, January 16, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Supreme Court allows Joy's
motion for mandamus. "Our case is decided against us, . . ." Lincoln writes.
"Very sorry for the result; but I do not think it could have been prevented."
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A349' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
Lincoln to Charles Hoyt</xref>, 16 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:328-29.</bibl>
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<p> Lincoln makes
opening argument in rehearing of famous tax case,
<name type='case' key='L01655'>Illinois Central RR v. McLean County, Illinois
& Parke</name>, first heard February 28, 1854. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-17'>Thursday, January 17, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Logan continues argument in Illinois Central case. James F. Joy, for
railroad, concludes argument and submits case. Court takes it under
advisement.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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(Later court reverses trial court, thus sustaining Lincoln and Joy.
<bibl default='NO'>17 Ill. 291.</bibl>)
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<date value='1856-01-18'>Friday, January 18, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln cashes $53.64 check at Springfield Marine and Fire Insurance Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by A. W. Hannah, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-21'>Monday, January 21, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Supreme Court, in <name type='case' key='L00774'>Booth & Martin v. Rives</name>, overrules motion Lincoln filed January 9, 1856.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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Lincoln is one of 49 signers of petition to governor for pardon of
James H. Lee, sentenced at last term of Sangamon Circuit Court for
stealing $26.
<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%3A350' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition for Pardon of James H. Lee</xref>, 21 January 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:329-30.</bibl>
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[Lee is pardoned three days later.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]
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<date value='1856-01-22'>Tuesday, January 22, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Preparing for next session of U.S. Circuit Court, Lincoln files notice to Browning and Bushnell of Quincy, attorneys for plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L02136'>Dudley et ux. v. Crosthwait</name>, that commission to take deposition will be issued on March 3, 1856 (first
day of term).
<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl>
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"For value received" Lincoln assigns his interest in Springfield lot
acquired through foreclosure in 1855 to Isaac Lindsay.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Payton Abstract Co., Book 3</title>, 217.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-24'>Thursday, January 24, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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In Supreme Court argument is commenced in <name type='case' key='L00870'>Moore & Munn v. Vail for use of Melick</name>, appeal from Morgan County, ejectment. D. A. Smith of Jacksonville opens argument for appellants.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1856-01-25'>Friday, January 25, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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McConnel and Grimshaw continue argument for appellee in <name type='case' key='L00870'>Moore & Munn v. Vail for use of Melick</name>. Lincoln concludes for appellants. Court takes case under advisement.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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(Judgment of lower court is later affirmed.
<bibl default='NO'>17 Ill. 185.</bibl>)
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<date value='1856-01-29'>Tuesday, January 29, 1856.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln writes and files praecipe and enters himself as security for costs in <name type='case' key='L02563'>Aspinall v. Lewis, Johnson & Co.</name> in Sangamon Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A354' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Elihu N. Powell</xref>, 15 February 1856, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:331-32.</bibl>
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He also writes bill of complaint.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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