Eppie Gives a Check to Fund Investments to Buy 100

Essay

Eppie gives a check to Fund Investments to buy 100 shares of stock in GR8 Tech Corporation for Eppie.The price of the shares is constantly fluctuating.Fund Investments asks Eppie to leave the amount of the check blank and allow it to fill in the price when making the purchase.Eppie agrees.Fund Investments buys the stock when the price is $4,000,but fills in the check for $5,000.The check is negotiated as payment for a $5,000 debt to Hasty Accounting Services,which takes the check in good faith and without no?tice of Fund Investments's act.Hasty later learns that Fund Investments was not author?ized to fill in the check for $1,000 over the price.Is Hasty an HDC? If so,for how much?