| Tuesday, April 5, 1842.Springfield, IL. |  Logan & Lincoln participate in four cases in the Sangamon County Circuit
    Court. The jury in the Thurman v. Taylor
    case rules against Logan & Lincoln's client, Charles Thurman, and the court orders
    Thurman to pay all the costs of the suit. The court grants a divorce to Logan &
    Lincoln's client, Ann McDaniel, in the case of McDaniel v.
     McDaniel. In addition, the court awards custody of the couple's three daughters to Ann
    McDaniel. Logan & Lincoln had established that defendant Patrick McDaniel had taken his
    wife's "earnings, and spent it in reveling and drunkenness." Logan & Lincoln represent
    defendant Leroy L. Hill in Trailor v. Hill
    ; Lincoln writes and files an answer in the case. In the case of Henry v. Whitwell & Whitwell, Logan & Lincoln file a
    petition for their client, plaintiff Anson G. Henry. They represent Edmund G. Johns in the U.S.
    District Court in his bankruptcy case, In re
    Johns. Judgment, 5 April 1842, Thurman v.
     Taylor, Record G, 346; Judgment, 5 April 1842, McDaniel v. McDaniel, Record
     G, 347, both in Sangamon County Circuit Court, Illinois Regional Archives Depository,
     University of Illinois at Springfield; Bill for Divorce, 5 January 1842, McDaniel v.
      McDaniel, copy files, Henry Horner Lincoln Collection, IHi; Answer, 5 April 1842,
      Trailor v. Hill, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
     Petition to Sell Real Estate, filed 5 April 1842, Henry v. Whitwell &
     Whitwell, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Order, 5 April
     1842, In re Johns, in General Bankruptcy 2, 563, U. S. District Court of Illinois,
     RG 21, National Archives, Great Lakes Region, Chicago, IL; Sangamo Journal
     (Springfield, IL), 8 April 1842, 3:3. |