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- GLC#
- GLC08881
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 22 November 1841
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Legal brief in the case of Robert Orr versus Andrew Orr]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 15.4 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Lincoln
Lincoln serves as a lawyer in the case of Robert versus Andrew Orr. Signed "Lincoln & Stuart," indicating that Lincoln oversaw the case with John Todd Stuart, his first law partner. The plaintiff of the case indicates that promissory notes "were given on and for goods and valuable consideration..."
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