Another brother, Albert, ended up with many of the family's acres but failed to pay taxes on his property, and in 1942 it was repossessed by the government.
It was repossessed by creditors after his death.
Customers pay their bill by phone; if they don't pay, the system stops working, and after a while it is repossessed.
Hereford FC chairman Jon Hale feels it is a relief for the reformed club to be given the keys back to Edgar Street after it was repossessed.
Local conservationists set up a limited company, which bought the building in 2006, intending to turn it into a community centre and museum; but it was repossessed in 2008 and was thereafter used for storage by a clothes shop.
He snapped up his 1995 Donzi motorboat after it had been repossessed from its previous owner.
It had been repossessed — the neighbors hope that whoever buys it will tear it down and build a new one — but Hendricks knew the code on the finance company's lockbox.
She had already paid more than $40,000 on it, but now she was powerless to prevent it from being repossessed.
Mr. Misharin said the factory was now state property, since it had been repossessed by a state-owned bank, but he made it clear that a new owner would soon step in.
