Manuscript document. Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, 22 July 1842. 2 pages, folio. With docketing to verso fo integral leaf. Remnants of 3 red wax seals. 

A legal document in the case between George Waggoner and William Porter, where, notably, Abraham Lincoln is listed as Waggoner's lawyer. The document includes the deposition of both the defendant and the complainant given before Thomas Moffett on 22 July 1842. On page 2, Thomas Moffett, acting Justice of the Peace, certified that "The Complainant [George Waggoner] appeared by his Attorney Abraham Lincoln Esq." in his office on 22 July 1842. 

The document dates from the period of Lincoln's legal partnership with Stephen Logan, which they began in 1841. Logan maintained the practice in Springfield while Lincoln traveled the Eighth Judicial Circuit, which brought Lincoln to Tazewell County. They dissolved their practice in December 1844, when Logan opened a practice with his son and Lincoln opened his own practice, soon partnering with William Herndon, who had clerked in the Logan & Lincoln law office. 

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