
Up until 2007, Hilda Henne Abbot and her siblings thought fiscal management of Tri-State Brick & Tile was running as smoothly as the millions of dollars in automated equipment installed at the Forest Avenue brickyard in the previous years. Within a year, Abbot and brother Robert Henne and sisters Linda Henne and Jodie Henne learned [...] [...]

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Court documents describe the collapse of longtime Jackson company Tri-State Brick & Tile as a “Mississippi success story gone awry.” And a story in which a bank is left holding the bag — in this instance a very hefty bag. Trustmark National Bank’s foreclosure on Tri-State Brick & Tile came to a close with the [...] [...]

Brick industry professional Pete Cieslak does not have a specific company in mind but says a buyer somewhere outside the South could conceivably have an interest in acquiring the defunct Tri-State Brick & Tile. It’s the kind of move that could get an outsider a foothold in the region, said Cieslak, president of the Brick [...] [...]

Trustmark National Bank’s early July foreclosure of Tri State Brick & Tile left the founder’s splintered family little to fight over, but the Mississippi Supreme Court may still have to declare a symbolic winner in the years-long feud. The justices have been asked to decide whether Trustmark, as the major lender to the 66-year-old Forest [...] [...]