Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge

619 N.E.2d 732 (1993)

156 Ill.2d 112

189 Ill.Dec. 31

KEDZIE AND 103RD CURRENCY EXCHANGE, INC., Appellant,

v.

Beulah M. HODGE, Appellee.

Docket No. 73855.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

August 26, 1993.

Scott A. Slutsky, Roy P. Amatore, Chicago, Gerald R. Slutsky, Northbrook, for appellant.

Frank P. Auwarter, Kathleen M. Gorr and Anne K. Lewis, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, for appellee.

We consider here whether a holder in due course of a check is precluded from payment as against the drawer where the check was given in exchange for contract services for which the provider was required to be, but was not,…