Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois Central Lawyer A Paper Read by Elmer A. Smith, Senior General Attorney of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, at a Meeting of the Western Conference of Railway Counsel, February 13, 1945 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois Central Lawyer: A Paper Read by Elmer A. Smith, Senior General Attorney of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, at a Meeting of the Western Conference of Railway Counsel, February 13, 1945 And he did not forget his old client when he became President. In 1863, through his intervention, the Illinois Central received some long overdue payments for the transportation of government property and troops over its lines.3 The Illinois Central then had controversies with the government arising out of the land-grant statutes just as all railroads have today. The government was just as arbitrary then in respect to these matters as it is today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.