[In Bloomington, McLean Circuit Court orders sheriff to execute judgment of $4,800 against Illinois Central in favor of Abraham Lincoln. Record.]

["Son" brings home from John Williams' store half-pound of tea. Pratt, Personal Finances, 149.]

Summer term of Sangamon Circuit Court commences. "The grand jury was organized, the docket called and a number of motions of various kinds and for various objects were made. Nothing of any general interest to the reader transpired." Register, 11 August 1857.

People ex rel. Koerner et al. v. Ridgely et al., case about which Lincoln wrote Gustave Koerner July 19, 1857, is called and continued. (Appointment of Koerner and others as trustees of State Bank of Illinois was involved.) Murder case—People v. John Bantzhouse—is set for trial next day. Wyatt and Lincoln & Herndon are defendant's attorneys. Record; Register, 13 August 1857.