![]() It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and defense attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of. ![]() Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. The vultures are circling even before the body is cold: the only subject more incendiary than money in Ford County is race, and this case has both. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. Seth has left ninety per cent of his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. ![]() ![]() Jake Brigance has never met Seth Hubbard, or even heard of him, until the old man’s suicide note names him attorney for his estate. ![]()
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