Your Style Publications, Inc. v. Mid Town Bank & Trust Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE BILANDIC

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs Your Style Publications, Inc., Bruce Hall, and David C. Killen (hereinafter customers), issued their respective checks to plaintiffs William Kelly, Sheldon Mathis, and Willie G. Curry, (hereinafter payees) drawn on their respective banks, defendants Mid Town Bank and Trust Company of Chicago (hereinafter Mid Town), Lake View Trust & Savings Bank, and Aetna Bank. The payees presented the checks for payment to the banks on which they were drawn. The banks refused to cash the checks without payment of a noncustomer “service…