BF Farnell Company v. Monahan

Defendant-appellee has fairly stated the controlling question:

“Where a defendant-contractor (1) has received payment for work performed under a contract, and, while the funds were still in hand, but before the payment of all materialmen, (2) filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy, (3) delivered those funds to the trustee in bankruptcy pursuant to the bankruptcy act (11 USC, § 110, et seq.) and (4) was subsequently discharged in bankruptcy, is such defendant-contractor entitled to a summary judgment, as a matter of law, against a plaintiff-materialman who claims a civil judgment, asserting…