Abraham Lincoln Legal ANS - "Stuart & Lincoln" (no date) September 1838....

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Abraham Lincoln Legal ANS - "Stuart & Lincoln" (no date) September 1838. Autograph legal document signed ("Stuart & Lincoln"), 1 page (7.75 x 4 in.; 197 x 102 mm.), for the Sangamon County Circuit Court [Springfield, Missouri], [no date, September 1838]. Professional repair on verso to horizontal fold separation. Abraham Lincoln writes a legal document as a young attorney with his first law partner John T. Stuart. Lincoln writes in full: Jacob Baum & John G. Shelton trading and doing business under the name, style and firm of "Baum & Shelton" vs Peter Van Bergen Trespass on the case upon promises - Damage $250.00 The clerk of the Sangamon County Circuit Court will issue process hereon, returnable to the next term of said Court. Stuart & Lincoln for Pl[ainti]ff. Baum and Shelton were St. Louis merchants who retained the law firm run by fellow Kentuckians John Stuart and Abraham Lincoln and sued Peter Van Bergen for breach of contract. In 1834, Van Bergen had purchased clothing from the plaintiffs and Baum & Shelton were seeking damages in the amount of $250.00. John Todd Stuart (November 10, 1807 - November 23, 1885) was born near Lexington, Kentucky and graduated from Centre College in 1826. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1828, and commenced practice in Springfield, Illinois. He was a major in the Black Hawk War in 1832 where he first met Abraham Lincoln who was in the same battalion as Stuart. He served as member of the Illinois House of Representatives between 1832 and 1836. Stuart encouraged Lincoln to study law and the two subsequently became law partners between 1837 and 1841.