Most of Stuart and Lincoln’s business involved debts in one form or another, though the two men also dealt with various matters in the criminal, common law, and chancery branches of the law. Many of the cases were of small importance, for example, challenging Lincoln to determine who owned a litter of pigs or who was responsible for the death of sheep due to foot rot. Lincoln and Stuart could not make ends meet if they confined their practice to Springfield, so, like most of their colleagues, they rode the First Judicial Circuit, encompassing ten counties. In 1839, when Sangamon County was included in the newly created Eighth Judicial Circuit, Lincoln traveled its nine counties but did the bulk of the firm’s work in Sangamon, Tazewell, Logan, and McLean counties.
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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