Peter and Sut Fong, two brothers, opened a safe deposit box at a U.S. Bancorp (the Bank) branch in Sacramento in 2000. In 2021, for unknown reasons, the Bank drilled into the Fongs’ safe deposit box to discover its contents…. Source by ContractsProf Blog Read More
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