Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 19th Edition by John Ashcroft,Katherine Ashcroft,Martha Patterson

Exercise 6

On a Thursday, Deborah Wallace went to Morris Murdock Travel to buy airline tickets. Because she did not have a credit card, Wallace had to pay cash. She told Murdock she did not have the money to cover the tickets in her account, but would have it the next Tuesday, and asked Murdock to take a postdated check. Wallace delivered to Murdock a check that was not postdated but dated the previous day. Murdock held the check until Tuesday, but it bounced, and Wallace was charged with issuing a bad check. Wallace argued the instrument was not a check. Did predating the check destroy negotiability?