Sycamore Row

Jake Brigance has never heard of Seth Hubbard, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?

Jake Brigance has never heard of Seth Hubbard, until the old man's suicide note names him attorney for his estate. The will is dynamite. Seth has left his vast, secret fortune to his housemaid. What made him write that last-minute will leaving everything to a poor black woman named Lettie Lang? Why did he choose to kill himself on the desolate piece of land known as Sycamore Row?