Court Opinion

ID: 9639508
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:21:07.65251+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:57.419457
License: Public Domain

SWAN, Circuit Judge.
I concur on the ground that, when the petition in bankruptcy was filed, the bankrupt’s contingent fee contract was still in force, and he had no possible cause of action in quantum meruit or otherwise for services performed up to that time. The uncompleted contract required personal services’ involving trust and confidence to be rendered by the bankrupt in the future; hence it did not pass to the trustee. Villar & Co. v. Conde, 30 F.(2d) 588 (C.C.A. 1); Remington, Bankruptcy (3d Ed.) § 1231. Any lien followed the contract, and the trustee had no interest therein.
CHASE, Circuit Judge, concurs.