Schultz

This is an appeal from an order admitting two holographic documents to probate as the last will of the deceased, John C. P. Schultz, who died on May 15, 1958. A surviving brother, Gustave O. E. Schultz, offered for probate a witnessed will executed in 1951. There also was offered for probate by Alfred P. Bolz, a friend of the deceased, two documents dated respectively, February 1, 1956, and March 22, 1956. 1 Both of these latter documents were admittedly in the deceased’s handwriting. The court denied probate to the 1951 will on the ground of its revocation by the 1956 instruments and admitted to probate the latter two holographic documents as the integrated last will of the deceased.

*515 Mr. Bolz received the February 1, 1956, document from the deceased through the mail. The record does not show whether there was an accompanying letter. The document was headed : “Copy. Last Will and Testament.” After appointing Mr. Bolz as “administrator” and providing for a series of $1.00 gifts to several relatives, the document concluded with a residuary clause as follows:

It will be noted that except for the first item in the above residuary clause, the amounts of the individual gifts are…