<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-01'>Friday, May 1, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln and Lamon represent plaintiff in trover case, <name type='case' key='L02034'>Shumate v. Payton</name>. After jury is sworn, plaintiff submits to nonsuit, and defendant is given execution for costs. Lincoln and Lamon also win <name type='case' key='L02065'>Wyatt v. Leonard</name>, assumpsit, when defendant defaults and is assessed $146.92 and costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-06'>Wednesday, May 6, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01922'>Johnson et al. v. Snow et al.</name>, chancery case in which Lincoln and Lamon represent complainants, is continued with leave to complainants to amend their bill.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-05-07'>Thursday, May
  7, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln reaches
  Urbana to watch interests of Illinois Central, writing judgment in 
  <name type='case' key='L01373'>Brock, Hays &amp; Co. v. Illinois Central
  RR</name>. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-08'>Friday, May 8, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes, and David Davis signs, bill of exceptions in <name type='case' key='L01970'>McDonald et al. v. Great Western RR</name>, appeal from assessment for right of way.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Lincoln's petition for pardon of John Gibbs, endorsed by Judge 
Davis, is delivered to Gov. Bissell.
<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%3A428' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition to William H. Bissell</xref>, [8 May 1857], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:394; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A429' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Endorsement: David Davis to William H. Bissell</xref>, [8 May 1857], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:394-95.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-09'>Saturday, May 9, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On returning to Springfield, Lincoln's first duty is to visit land office in connection with two pre-emption claims sent him by Joseph Brackett. He declines invitation to speak in Minnesota during coming campaign, and files declaration in <name type='case' key='L02224'>Wainwright, Huntington, &amp; Floyd v. Curtis et al.</name>, alleging nonpayment of promissory note for $1,322.83, in U.S. Circuit Court.
<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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph W. Brackett</xref>, 18 May 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:395-96; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A430' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Charles D. Gilfillan</xref>, 9 May 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:395; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-16'>Saturday, May 16, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln files praecipe, declaration, and bond for costs in <name type='case' key='L02245'>Eshrick, Black &amp; Co. v. Tobias, Hittle &amp; Co.</name> with clerk of U.S. Circuit Court. Suit is brought to enforce payment of note for $831.78, executed by defendants.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He also deposits $200 to his account at the Springfield Marine and 
Fire Insurance Co., and collects $225 from Joshua F. Amos, 
administrator of Nathaniel Hay.
<bibl default='NO'>Marine Bank Ledger; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A431' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt to Joshua F. Amos</xref>, 16 May 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:395.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-18'>Monday, May 18, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
To Joseph W. Brackett of Rock Island Lincoln writes account of his 
visit to land office May 9, 1857. There was no record in office to 
show quantity of land preempted and he failed to get business 
concluded. Register was perplexed "because of the peculiarity of the 
case and consequently he put me off from time to time till now." He 
encloses certificates.
<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%3A432' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joseph W. Brackett</xref>, 18 May 1857, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:395-96.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-19'>Tuesday, May 19, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys 36 yards of "Buff Linen" and "1&#190; yds. 
Bobbinet," charging $9.44 to Lincoln's account at John Williams &amp; 
Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 148.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-20'>Wednesday, May 20, 1857.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> returns buff linen and buys 36 yards of "Cotton Damask," 
and another yard of bobbinet.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 148.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-21'>Thursday, May 21, 1857.</date>
            <place key='41.8500, -87.6500' teiForm='name'>Chicago, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, described by Chicago Journal as "the successor of Stephen A. 
Douglas in the U.S. Senate," is in Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>, 22 May 1857.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1857-05-25'>Monday, May 25, 1857.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p>Lincoln writes to St. Louis attorneys Newton Deming
  Strong and George P. Strong regarding the status of the appeal case of 
  <name type='case' key='L02137'>Eads &amp; Nelson v. Ohio &amp; Mississippi
  RR</name>. Lincoln and the Strongs represent the railroad which lost an earlier
  suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Missouri. That court ruled
  in favor of Eads &amp; Nelson, a company that did salvage work for the railroad
  after sixty of the railroad's cars sank in the Ohio River during transport
  between Louisville, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Missouri. The railroad and the
  salvage company differ on the amount of compensation that Eads &amp; Nelson
  should receive for salvaging fifty-two of the sixty cars. Although they won the
  case in Missouri, Eads &amp; Nelson are compelled to take the railroad to court
  in Illinois, the state in which the railroad had placed the cars. Eads &amp;
  Nelson also win the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District
  of Illinois. Lincoln writes, "The admiralty case now stands on appeal to the
  circuit court and consequently, can only be tried by Judge [John] McLean; and I
  understand he will remain here only one week, commencing that first Monday of
  June." Lincoln advises the Strongs to meet with the plaintiffs' St. Louis
  attorney "and make an arrangement with him as to a day of taking up the case."
  Before the defendants appealed the case, Lincoln had argued that the federal
  court in Illinois did not have jurisdiction because the federal court in
  Missouri had already tried the case and ruled for Eads &amp; Nelson. Lincoln
  refers to the federal courts and jurisdiction, and takes the opportunity to
  mock the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision: "There is no longer any
  difficult question of <uLine>jurisdiction</uLine> in the Federal courts; they
  have jurisdiction in all possible cases except such as might redound to the
  benefit of a 'nigger' in some way. Seriously, I wish you to prepare, on the
  question jurisdiction as well as you can; for I fear the later decisions are
  against us." <bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Newton Deming Strong and
  George P. Strong, 25 May 1857, IHi, Springfield, IL; U.S. District Court
  transcript, 13 September 1855, <name>Eads &amp; Nelson v. Ohio &amp;
  Mississippi RR</name>, Record Group 21, case file 1; Judgment, 1 July 1856, 
  <name>Eads &amp; Nelson v. Ohio &amp; Mississippi RR</name>, General Record,
  Vol. 1, 50, U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois; Answer, 15 March
  1856, <name>Eads &amp; Nelson v. Ohio &amp; Mississippi RR</name>, Record Group
  21, case file 1, all in National Archives and Records Administration, Great
  Lakes Region, Chicago, IL.</bibl> </p> </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1857-05-27'>Wednesday, May 27, 1857.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln appears for defendant in <name type='case'>Leverick v. Leverick</name>, case in Vermilion Circuit Court in which appointment of conservator is sought. Jury finds defendant insane, and Richard Leverick is appointed conservator.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1857-05-28'>Thursday, May
  28, 1857.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes
  to Jonathan Cooper and Hugh Reynolds, Peoria lawyers, about law case on which
  he expects court action soon, <name type='case' key='L02245'>Eshrick, Black
  &amp; Co. v. Tobias, Hittle &amp; Co.</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%3A434' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham
  Lincoln to Jonathan K. Cooper and Hugh W. Reynolds</xref>, 28 May 1857,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:396.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>