DETHMERS, C.J.
On December 28, 1949, Frederick P. Kelley, then a 69-year-old widower of 4 months' standing, now deceased, said to plaintiff, 10 years his junior, "Why don't you come to California with me?" Plaintiff thought he was joking, thought nothing of it, considered it "just conversation." Nothing was said between them that day or at any previous time about marriage. They were not then close friends and had seen each other only a few times before. On December...
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