ABRAHAM LINCOLN AUTOGRAPH LEGAL DOCUMENT
One page, 8.25" x 8", no place; no date. A record of a legal case, "Chancery, with injunction", involving Lee C. Wallace v. Albert S. Miller and others. The document reads, in full:
"This day came the complamant and the defendant, William Fondy, and by their agreement it is ordered that the injunction be dissolved, as to said defendant Fondy, and also as to the defendants Cheney & Wilson, so far as the same relates to the note states on the Bill to be in the hands of said Fondy; and in consideration of which the said Fondy stipulates to be help bound and personally [illegible] to the complamant, for so much of the proceeds of said note, as shall be assigned to the said complamant, on the final hearing of the case." At the end of the document, written in a different hand, reads: "And that notice of this order be sent upon the said Cheney & Wilson."
Abraham Lincoln's legal career lasted nearly 25 years, beginning in 1836 and lasting until 1859. Admitted to the bar in 1836, Lincoln went into partnership with his friend John T. Stuart. He later went on to serve on the Illinois Supreme Court and partnered with Stephen T. Logan and William H. Herndon before becoming President of the United States.