In the Vermilion County Circuit Court, Lincoln files a plea for defendant Samuel Frazier in the case of Ligget v. Frazier. Two of the defendants in the assault and battery case of Brown v. Makemson et al. file an affidavit in which they ask the court for more time to produce a witness. Lincoln and Oliver L. Davis represent plaintiff William N. Brown. Plea, filed 11 May 1852, Ligget v. Frazier, Champaign County Circuit Court, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Affidavits of Harper J. Campbell and Joseph Campbell, 11 May 1852, Brown v. Makemson et al., case file, box 61-3, Vermilion County Circuit Court, Vermilion County Courthouse, Danville, IL.