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Jensen. Combining the time between
Sutherland, Dearing & Jertberg; Jertberg & Avery; and Baker, Manock & Jensen, these firms occupied the same space on the sixth floor of the old Pacific Southwest Building for 56 consecutive years before moving to another location seven miles north. Baker, Manock & Jensen is now one of the largest law firms in
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Sutherland's 1935 will, which named the bank as executor and trustee of a trust established by the will that would pay the younger Sutherland $ 150 per month, equip his dental office, and distribute the balance to him at age 35 at the bank's discretion. Keith contended the will was revoked by a
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In 1903, Sutherland became a law partner with Joseph P. Bernhard, who had also worked on Rose's U.S. Notes in San
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President of the Associated Raisin Company then became the President of the bank in March 1920, renaming it Fidelity Trust and Savings Bank, with Sutherland leaving his law firm to become the vice president and manager of Fidelity. After a year of serving as President of both companies, the
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attempt to organize the raisin farmers had failed in 1904. After his death in 1906, several industry groups tried unsuccessfully between 1907 and 1912 to follow the
Kearney model of a capitalized raisin cooperative. A group of prominent growers and Fresno businessmen, and Sutherland as their
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law. Sutherland's law gave fathers and mothers joint custody of their minor children and joint right to any services and earnings from those children; prior to the passage of
Sutherland's law, these rights were the sole domain of fathers.
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