Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . had led his ticket by manv thousand votes. Judge Coffey hasserved in the Superior Court, Department Nine, continuously since1882, during 1887 and 1907 as presiding judge, and his present termwill not expire until 1920. Judge Coffeys name has been identifiedwith the settlement of virtually all the great California estates, themoney value thereof aggregating $500,000,000. Judge Coffeys Probate Decisions, filling five volumes, are re-garded as authority throughout the United States, and his Scale ofFees, formulated with the purpose of preventing the ea
Municipal blue book of San Francisco, 1915 . had led his ticket by manv thousand votes. Judge Coffey hasserved in the Superior Court, Department Nine, continuously since1882, during 1887 and 1907 as presiding judge, and his present termwill not expire until 1920. Judge Coffeys name has been identifiedwith the settlement of virtually all the great California estates, themoney value thereof aggregating $500,000,000. Judge Coffeys Probate Decisions, filling five volumes, are re-garded as authority throughout the United States, and his Scale ofFees, formulated with the purpose of preventing the eating up ofsmall estates by excessive legal charges, whereby he won the deservedtitle of protector of the widow and the orphan, has been generallyadopted throughout the country. For more than twenty years he has been President of the HistoricalSociety of California. He is not married. The entire length of the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct from the main damsite to the City Hall in San Francisco is 170 miles. 192 ]\IuxiciPAL Blue Book of San Francisco. J PHOTO BY BUSHNELL BERNARD J. FLOODSuperior Judge UDGE BERNARD J. FLOOD,member of the Superior Court ofCalifornia, was born in San Fran-cisco May 7, 1879, the son of Ber-nard and Mary E. Flood. His earlyeducation was, obtained in the publicschools of the city and at SacredHeart College, and his later studieswere pursued at St. Marys College,Oakland. From the last named in-stitution he graduated May 27, 1897,as a Bachelor of Laws. Securingthe Professorship of Greek andLatin at the Sacramento Institute,he did successful work as an in-structor until his admission to thebar in June, 1901. He continued hislaw studies in the offices of vScott &Dooling of Hollister, and Lennon &Hawkins of San Francisco, and inJanuary, 1902, was appointed Deputy District Attorney by Lewis He remained in this position until the expiration of term of office, proving himself so capable that William , who next took charge of the depar
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