Blacker v. BUKOWITZ, TRADING AS ACE CURRENCY EXCHANGE

PER Curiam. Ben Bukowitz, the appellee, who operates a check cashing service under the name of Ace Currency Exchange, cashed checks totalling over $20,000 for Melvin Blacker. The checks turned out to be worthless. To make good, in part, or to gain time, Blacker gave his wife, the appellant, a check of a third person in the amount of $12,500 and asked her to deposit it in her checking account in a Pikesville bank, draw her check for the same amount to the order of Ace Currency Exchange, and give it to him to be given to Ace.

She did so. Blacker gave her check to Ace to be applied as part payment of the money he owed Ace—the cash Ace had given him for the checks which were bad. On a prior occasion Ace had taken Mrs. Blacker’s check and it had been good. This time, at Blacker’s request, Ace called the wife’s bank and was told she had made a large deposit in the morning, and if her check were deposited in Baltimore it should be good by the time it reached Pikesville.

Thereupon Ace deposited the check and, in a few days, received word from the bank that the check had been returned marked “insufficient funds.” Ace recovered judgment against Mrs. Blacker for the amount of the check over her objections that she received no consideration and Ace was not a holder for value, and that Ace knew the