From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!rocheste!heliotis
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Do we need to buy checks?
Article-I.D.: rocheste.369
Posted: Thu Jan  6 08:39:04 1983
Received: Fri Jan  7 02:35:47 1983


My father used to tell me that, if you have a checking account at a bank,
the bank must allow ANY signed note by you as a valid request for payment.
For example, you could scratch out on a napkin, "Pay to the Order of
John Doe, the sum of One Hundred dollars ($100.00)", and sign it, and
with that napkin, John Doe could get $100.

In the interest of not defacing the family name, I assume that this WAS
true at some time.  Do any of you have any opinions/knowledge about this?
I'm sure this would only apply to the branch of the bank where they keep
your signature.

Post your thoughts to the net, please.

                                                Jim Heliotis