The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-05
Tho numbers which prizes last night we're
follows. S51: 1922. cs7s, 2e32. 1870 1865 1855.
y6I. 1896 1902. 6l72 e37. 2ssl. SeS0 1898. 1926.
35S7 35oi. l761. 5l62. 1895, 1881. 1892 $685. s35.
5jo $500 5I0s 27b2. 1896. 1921. 1885, 1897. 2s06
SO. 3s71. 6235. 1895. 7s7. 1924. 1885, 225s. s21.
1892 1926 1a77. 3734. 1890 2s14. 371s. $780, 1901.
$751; LOG. 1890 ST23, 2elo 2i62. 3512. 1895. s527.
50s:, 1866. 1851. 61f3 1885, 1874, 1sls. 35ii, $780,
s1Si ?s76. l4ss, 500. 1852 SI7, 5ie3. 1895. 23l5.
1885, 6023. 1855. 1900 23O5 Bios, 50eT. 1860 1922.
e3Is 2t55 1917 2la3. Sssl 1898. 227s. 1910. 2leO.
1851. 2si0. 1884. 1921
DEATH BED" CHECK
HELD TO Be VALID
Idaho Supreme Court Decides
That ''Phil" McGran Must
Make Paper Good.
Special 10 The Tribune.

opcCidl 10 lie Tribune.
BOISE, Ida. April d.-Although he
'repented' of the act or writing a $4,000
check in favor OF Mrs. Ross Z. Coe, the
woman who nursed him when he thought
he was going to die; Phil McGran, a
city, must make the obligation good,
This Is the edlct Of the supreme court
OF this state. UP TO which he fought the
10 recover on the check, on which he had
ordered his bank to refuse payment.
No decision handed down by the court
in years has been more interesting, II
was not a unanimous ruling, Chief Jus
tice James f.. AiIshle and Justice George
Fl Stewart a majority of the court.
held that McGran should pay over the
money, Justice Isaac n. Sullivan failed
10 agree with his associates. taking Me-
Grams side, and scathingly scoring the
plaintiff. The opinion affirmed the YER
dict of the jury entered in the district
court for Ada county.
Phil McGran has few near relatives
and Ia the owner OF large amount Of
real estate in this city. including several
houses for rent. IL was In the year 1911
that he made arrangements with Mrs.
Coe. whose maiden name was Nellie w.
houses and for himself TO live with
them, McGran Is well advanced in years
and needed care, as does many one OF
his age. lie was happy and contented
with the Coe family. for Mrs Coe at
tended 10 his comforts. In fact. the tes-
timony given in the case as presented
I'D LlS supreme court, SHOWS lIlHl NC
Gran was so contented that he often
told the Goes he proposed TO repay them.
With this idea IN view he inspected yalu-
able ranch property and one time made
arrangements with Mr., Coe 10 buy n
stock ranch in Mexico. The deal did not
,naterlalize. but had 1t, McGran intended
TO deed the property over to Mrs. Coe.
He told her that he wanted TO give her
$4,000 anyway.
On the night OF December 2e 1911, Nc
Gran was taken dangerously III. The
Goes found him In a critical condition
when called TO his bedroom a physi-
clan WAS summoned. Lawyers were hur-
ried TO his bedside To make his will and
| iinally priest was called in TO admin
lister to him In what McGran believed
| 70 be his dying hours. After all these
| had departed. according 10 the testi-
| monyy MCGran summoned 1frs. Coe and
| asked her to bring him pen, ink and a
checkbook. She complied with his re-
quest, asking him at the time II 1t was
| ms purpose TO write out a check for
the $4,000 he had promised to give her.
lie replied that IL was Propped up In
| his bed by pillows. McGran wrote out
| the check, handed It to Mrs. Coe and
| sank back 10 await death
/ To the surprise of Mrs Cos and great
| y 20 inc relief OF TcGrsu, his attorney
aud friends. the sick man was much
stronger the next morning and as the
Gay wore on greatly improved I'm health
suddenly thinking of the check he had
Issued, he Instructed that tho bank be
notified that 1t be not paid from his