List of cases involving Abraham Lincoln

This 'List of cases involving Abraham Lincoln concerns litigation while Abraham Lincoln worked as a lawyer. He brought cases to local courts, the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court during his career before he became President of the United States.

Illinois Supreme Court

  • People ex rel. Stevenson v Higgins, 15 Ill 110 (1853) concerning trustees of a hospital. Lincoln acted for Higgins. He lost on the point of who, precisely, was empowered by common law to exercise the right of removal. Lincoln argued that it should only be the legislature, the governor or the Supreme Court, but not the hospital’s trustees, but the court felt the trustees too could exercise the power of amotion.[1]
  • Sprague v. Illinois River Railroad Co. 19 Ill 174 (1857) effect of amendment to railroad company's charter on liability of stockholders.

US Supreme Court

  • Longworth v Lewis 48 US 776 (1849) on construction of an Illinois Statute of Limitations
  • Williamson v Barrett 54 US 101 (1852) steamboat damages

Notes

  1. ↑ The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler, Editor, Rutgers; 1953, II, 197-98. Lincoln's name does not, however, appear on the printed report. See also, E McGaughey, Participation in Corporate Governance (2014) ch 4(3), 96.

See also

References

  • Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Abraham Lincoln's important cases (1959)
  • Brian McGinty, Lincoln's Greatest Case: The River, the Bridge, and the Making of America (2015)
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