By: Amanda Meyer

Lee sued Coburn to collect $600 for five years of labor as a servant. There was no written contract, guarantee, or promise between the parties, and Lee refused to prosecute the case further after the jury heard the evidence. Lincoln represented Coburn. May 08, Replication in Lee v. Coburn, [Law papers].

Wright gave Taylor three promissory notes for $ each and secured the notes with a mortgage Wright gave Taylor three promissory notes for $ each and secured the notes with a mortgage on 282 acres of land. Wright paid the first note but defaulted on the second. Taylor retained Logan and Lincoln and sued to foreclose the mortgage. However, Wright answered that Taylor had assigned the note to the State Bank of Illinois to pay a debt and had paid in the liquidated bank's depreciated currency of $0.26 on the dollar. Taylor then tried to have Wright pay the full value of the note. The court ruled for Taylor and decreed that Wright pay $ or the court would sell the land. Wright appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, which reversed and remanded the decree. Justice Purple stated that Wright was not liable for the full amount of the note, but rather for the depreciated amount that Taylor had paid the bank. Taylor only succeeded to the rights of the bank and could not have superior equity. Purple reasoned that the case "is plain and easy of solution. The general doctrine of the law relative to the transfer, and endorsement of promissory notes, has necessarily but little application to the question, and the controversy may be settled equitably and legally without the slightest interference with any known or established principle." In the remanded case, the court ruled for Taylor and decreed the foreclosure of the mortgage June 04, Answer in Wright v. Taylor, [Law papers].

Title: [Abraham Lincoln while a traveling lawyer, taken in Danville, Illinois Creator's): Joslin, Amon T., photographerJoslin, Amon T. Date Created/Published: 1857 May 27 [printed later]

Title: Lincoln the lawyer / Frederick T. Stuart. Creator's): Stuart, Frederick T., , etcherStuart, Frederick T., Date Created/Published: [between 1865 and 1910(?)]

Title: [Abraham Lincoln, Congressman- elect from Illinois. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front] Creator's): Shepherd, Nicholas H., photographerShepherd, Nicholas H. Date Created/Published: [Springfield, Ill., 1846 or 1847]

Title: Abraham Lincoln from a portrait taken from life by Charles A. Barry, Springfield, Illinois, June 1860 / on stone by J.E. Baker ; J.H. Buford's lath. 313 Washington St. Boston. Creator's): J.H. Buford's Lath.,J.H. Buford's Lath. Date Created/Published: Boston : Thayer & Eldridge, Publishers for N.E. States, c1860 (Boston : J.H. Buford's Lath. 313 Washington St.)

Title: Thebes Courthouse, Thebes, Alexander County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after

Title: Old Wabash Hotel, Main & Union Streets, Edwardsville, Madison County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after

Title: Worthington House, Franklin & West Washington Streets, Pittsfield, Pike County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after

Title: Pendergast Inn, Market & Monroe Streets, Mackinaw, Tazewell County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after

Title: Dr. F. C. Fink House, State Route 125, Pleasant Plains, Sangamon County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after

Title: Major's Hall, 117 East Front Street, Bloomington, McLean County, IL Creator's): Historic American Buildings Survey, creatorHistoric American Buildings Survey Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after