Court Opinion

ID: 9546826
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:35:58.969774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:16:54.467618
License: Public Domain

WOLFE, Chief Justice.
I concur. Under the evidence it is clear that the automobile dealer to whom the defendant gave the postdated check treated it as a credit transaction. However, I agree with the majority opinion that under certain circumstances a postdated check may be the basis for prosecution under Sec. 76-20-11, U.C.A.1953, such as where it is given by a person who knows (1) that it is postdated, and (2) that there are not sufficient funds in his account to cover payment of the check, but fails to mention either of these facts to the receiver of the check.
*142In this day and age when checks are widely used in commerce, I think the receiver of a check is reasonable in assuming that the check is currently dated and thus payable immediately until the contrary is called to his attention. Any other rule makes the receiver of checks bear the risk that sometime the date on a check will escape his or his employee’s notice or that he will temporarily not have correctly in mind the current date and accept a postdated check while laboring under the impression that it is currently dated.