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Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed

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Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed
<B>Abraham Lincoln Autograph Document Signed</B></I> twice "<I>Weldon & Lincoln p.d.</B></I>" No place or date (docketed May 1856), three-quarters page, folio, on blue paper. In John H. Lisk vs Frederick Morford, the defendant makes a general plea that he is "<I>not guilty…as…alledged</B></I>" and that the allegations are "<I>not sufficient in law</B></I>" to sustain the plaintiff. An interesting penciled endorsement on the verso, in an unknown hand, concerns instructions given to the jury in this case. They direct that "<I>unless the jury believe that the defendant was, in fact, the owner of the dogs alleged to have done the injury…they must find for the defendant</B></I>", and that "<I>if liable at all, the criterion of damages is the market value of the ewes killed, at the time…</B></I>" Soiled folds, with some old glassine repairs. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>
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