One page, small 4to (317 x 191 mm), mounted on rice paper with minor losses not affecting text along edges, light toning.

In part: "Abraham Lincoln, having first duly sworn, states on oath that in the suit now pending our error, in the Supreme Court in and for the State of Illinois, in the Second Grand Division aforesaid, between the parties above named, the defendant, David J. Mennow, J.S. Currier, John Welch, A. Spencer Nye, and Wesley Claypool, as affiant is informed, and verily believe, reside out of the State of Illinois."

Columbus Machine Manufacturing Co. et al. v. E.R. Ulrich et al. was a case that revolved around the failure of landowner James Barrett to pay for materials purchased to build a distillery on his property. After the court initially ruled against him in the lawsuit brought by Edward R. Ulrich and others, and he again failed to pay, his land was mortgaged by the court, which in turn led to another lawsuit filed by Columbus Machine Manufacturing Co. on the ground that the mechanic's lien brought against the property was invalid. This case was one of the last argued by the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office before Lincoln was elected president of the United States that November.