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Broke, Not Broken
Spivey, Broadus; Sublett, Jesse
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Description for Broke, Not Broken
Series: American Liberty & Justice. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK; LNPB; LNPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 717.
Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centres and subdivisions.
On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against Maxey. In a secret sale, more than 35,000 acres of ranch land and other holdings were divided up and sold for pennies on the dollar. By closing time, Maxey was penniless.
Maxey sued the bank and every member of the ... Read more
Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centres and subdivisions.
On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against Maxey. In a secret sale, more than 35,000 acres of ranch land and other holdings were divided up and sold for pennies on the dollar. By closing time, Maxey was penniless.
Maxey sued the bank and every member of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
American Liberty & Justice
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896728554
SKU
V9780896728554
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About Spivey, Broadus; Sublett, Jesse
Broadus Spivey has been practising law for over fifty years. He currently lives in Austin but began his law career in Lubbock, where he was acquainted with many other principal figures involved in this book, including attorneys on both sides of the case, the judges, Homer Maxey himself, and Maxey’s daughter, Glenna Goodacre. Jesse Sublett is a writer and ... Read more
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