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Estate of Henry W. Ranger. March 12, 1917.

MEMORANDUM DICTATED BY MR. PHELPS CONCERNING HIS INTERVIEW AT SYRACUSE WITH DR. BRACE W. LOOMIS AND MAJOR JOHN B. TUCK, HIS ATTORNEY,
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917.

I went to Syracuse last Thursday afternoon, March 8, 1917, and at nine o'clock on the following morning met Dr. Loomis and Major Tuck at the latter's office as per previous appointment for the purpose of discussing Dr. Loomis's claim against the estate. Dr. Loomis had written me under date of February 23 that the mortgage and note which Mr. Ranger had placed into the hands of Judge Crouch were for services prior thereto: "He executed the satisfaction of the mortgage and put the papers referred to into the hands of Judge Crouch to settle with me for professional services to himself and his father. During the latter years of his life Ranger's father was under my care for months at a time. I rendered these services to his father at H. W. Ranger's request and he agreed to pay me for them. All this was up to and before ten years ago or thereabouts. But since that time and notably during the past six years, I have rendered H. W. Ranger many professional services, of great value requiring much time and expense of me. For these services I have a claim against his estate."

I stated to Dr. Loomis that as executors Mr. Macbeth and I had no interest in this estate other than to administer our trust fairly and with justice to all concerned, that we did not wish to dispute any rightful claim but that many claims had been put in which we felt were not rightful and that in every case it apparently was our duty to make ourselves familiar with the facts. For this reason I had come to Syracuse in order that I might hear this statement from his own lips and be able to report to my co-executor and to those interested in the estate just what the facts were. Dr. Loomis then made to me a long and detailed statement of his services to Mr. Ranger and to Mr. Ranger's father extending, as he says in the extract above, over a period of many years. During the year 1915, at Mr. Ranger's urgent solicitation, he had left his work in Syracuse and devoted three months at Noank to the care of Mr. Ranger, who was in a bad way. During all of the last six years he had been in conference at times with Mr. Ranger and with Mr. Ranger's other physicians, particularly Dr. Meyers, and had rendered important and numerous services, of all of which he stated he had detailed entries. The recital of these various services since those compensated for by the trust instrument in Judge