Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wg.2ADI/184.186.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: There is a reference to what I assume is that circuit court case in a published book: In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln's Illinois, edited by Daniel W. Stowell, published by University of Illinois Press, 2002. The first chapter, which describes the case in a few paragraphs, is at: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/stowell/ch1.html (search the page for Michael Mann or Sarah Lucas). --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.774 / Virus Database: 521 - Release Date: 10/7/2004