Estate of Rolls

Section 1279 of the Civil Code of this state provides: ;“A conjoint or mutual will is valid, but it may be revoked by any of the testators, in like manner with any other will.” On April 16, 1919, John Bolls and Leah Bolls, husband and wife, residents of the city of Los Angeles, pursuant to the foregoing provision of the Civil Code, executed a conjoint and mutual will. The husband, being then ill, was taken to a hospital, where he died on the next day, following, as intimated, a surgical operation, at the age of seventy-two years. He left surviving him four children, the issue of a former…