In the Tazewell County Circuit Court, Judge David Davis hears the testimony and the evidence in the case of Tremont Female Seminary Trustees v. Hamilton. He reverses a lower court decision and rules in favor of Lincoln's and Alexander H. Saltonstall's client Lorenzo D. Hamilton. Lincoln takes the affidavit of defendant Remington K. Webster and files a plea for him in the case of Gill & Rupert v. Webster. Lincoln and Halsey O. Merriman represent defendant William B. Doolittle in the appeal case, Doolittle v. Doolittle. Doolittle is the administrator of his brother Irwin Doolittle's estate, and Irwin's widow Anne Maria Doolittle is suing William Doolittle to stop the sale of property to pay Irwin Doolittle's debts. Lincoln and Merriman make a motion to dismiss the appeal. The court takes the motion into consideration and continues the case. Lincoln serves as a juror to hear the petition of Mary Fitting in Ex Parte Mary Fitting. Mary Fitting's attorney presents evidence regarding the mental state of Fitting's husband John Fitting. The jury determines that John Fitting is a "distracted" person, and Judge Davis appoints Alexander Robinson as a conservator to oversee John Fitting's estate. Lincoln files a notice to the plaintiffs that he intends to ask the court "to enter satisfaction of said Decree" in the case of Cromwell and McNaghton v. Baker and Tazewell County, Illinois. Logan & Lincoln represent Edward D. Baker in a dispute over money the plaintiffs claim that Baker owes to the estate of Nathan Cromwell.Order, 9 April 1852, Tremont Female Seminary Trustees v. Hamilton, General Record F, 371-72, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Tazewell County Courthouse, Pekin IL; Affidavit, 9 April 1852, Gill & Rupert v. Webster, Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Plea, 9 April 1852, Gill & Rupert v. Webster, New York Public Library, New York, NY; Motion to Dismiss, 9 April 1852, Doolittle v. Doolittle, case file, box 78; Decree, 9 April 1852, Doolittle v. Doolittle, General Record F, 361; Judgment, 9 April 1852, Ex Parte Mary Fitting, General Record F, 374, all in Tazewell County Circuit Court, Tazewell County Courthouse, Pekin, IL; Notice of Motion (copy), filed 9 April 1852, Cromwell and McNaghton v. Baker and Tazewell County, Illinois, copy files, Henry Horner Lincoln Collection, IHi, Springfield, IL .