All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping v. Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations

CourtUnited States Bankruptcy Court, D. Colorado
DecidedMay 19, 2026
Docket25-01129
StatusUnknown

This text of All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping v. Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations (All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping v. Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Colorado primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping v. Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations, (Colo. 2026).

Opinion

IN THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO The Honorable Michael E. Romero

In re: Case No. 25-10742 MER Tyler J. Moody Chapter 7 Debtor.

All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, Adversary No. 25-01129 MER d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping

Plaintiff,

v.

Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations

Defendant.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

This matter comes before the Court on the Motion for Summary Judgment (“Motion”) filed by Plaintiff All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC (“All Terrain”) and the Supplement thereto.1 There were no objections or responses to the Motion.

BACKGROUND

The following facts are undisputed. All Terrain is a professional landscaping company. On January 9, 2023, All Terrain entered into a Master Subcontractor Agreement (“Agreement”) with TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations (“TyBuild”). TyBuild is the trade name of the Debtor/Defendant Tyler J. Moody (“Moody”) (collectively with TyBuild, the “Moody Parties”) and is solely owned and operated by Moody. Per the Agreement, the Moody Parties agreed to perform work as a subcontractor for All Terrain.

On June 5, 2023, the Moody Parties began work for All Terrain on a project known as the Lehigh Project. The Lehigh Project required the Moody Parties to, among other things, demolish an existing deck and install a new one. The Moody Parties submitted a bid for the project in the amount of $27,784.00. The bid included a $22,563.90 down payment, which All Terrain paid. After the Moody Parties completed

1 ECF Nos. 15 & 18. work on the Lehigh Project, All Terrain found the work was substandard, incomplete, and unacceptable. As a result, All Terrain was forced to retain another contractor and to fix the Moody Parties’ work.

Around the same time as the Lehigh Project and before All Terrain was aware of the substandard work, All Terrain also retained the Moody Parties to perform work on a project known as the RPT Project. All Terrain advanced the Moody Parties $13,855.60 for the RPT Project, plus an additional $1,500 for permits. However, the Moody Parties failed to obtain the necessary permits, and All Terrain was forced to reduce the scope of the work for the RPT Project. As such, All Terrain canceled the Moody Parties’ work on the project. However, the Moody Parties refused to return the $13,855.60 advanced for the RPT Project, the $1,500 for permits, or the $22,563.90 for the Lehigh Project. All Terrain made several attempts to contact the Moody Parties about the funds, but was ultimately unsuccessful. As a result, All Terrain sent the Moody Parties a Notice of Contract Breach and Intent to Terminate, demanding, among other things, that the Moody Parties return all unearned funds advanced for the projects. The Moody Parties failed to return any of the funds.

Eventually, All Terrain commenced litigation against the Moody Parties in the Weld County District Court (“State Court”), asserting claims for breach of contract and civil theft of the funds from the Lehigh and RPT Projects, as well as the permit fees (“State Court Case”).2 On September 10, 2024, the State Court entered its order granting All Terrain’s motion for summary judgment (“Summary Judgment Order”).3 Per the Summary Judgment Order, the State Court found All Terrain had proven its breach of contract claim as well as its civil theft claim with respect to the RPT Project funds. However, the State Court determined All Terrain had not met its burden to prove its civil theft claim with respect to the funds from the Lehigh Project or the permit fees. As a result, the State Court entered a judgment in favor of All Terrain and against the Moody Parties in the total principal amount of $127,525.05 (“State Court Judgment”).

All Terrain commenced the instant adversary proceeding on April 14, 2025, seeking a determination the debts owed to it by Moody are nondischargeable pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(2)(A), (a)(4), and (a)(6). All Terrain filed the instant Motion on October 8, 2025. The Court had several issues with the Motion, including that All Terrain appeared to seek more damages than were awarded in the State Court Judgment. In particular, it appeared All Terrain was seeking to recover the $22,563.90 advanced for the Lehigh Project and the $1,500 for the permits. However, the State Court already found that All Terrain had not proven its entitlement to those damages.4 As a result, the Court ordered All Terrain to file a supplement addressing the preclusive effect of the findings in the Summary Judgment Order and State Court Judgment, as

2 Case No. 2023CV30929.

3 ECF No. 15, Ex. D, September 10, 2024, Order Granting Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment.

4 All Terrain also requested such damages be trebled. well as why it is entitled to more damages than the State Court originally awarded.5 All Terrain filed its Supplement on February 3, 2026, advising the Court it no longer intends to seek the damages related to the Lehigh Project and permit fees. Therefore, All Terrain only seeks the $127,525.05 awarded for the breach of contract claim and theft of the RPT Project funds.

ANALYSIS

A. Applicable Standard

Pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c) (incorporated by Fed. R. Bankr. P. 7056), a court may award summary judgment only when there are no disputes as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.6 In applying this standard, the Court examines the factual record and reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.7 The movant bears the burden of demonstrating there is no genuine issue of material fact.8 If the moving party makes a prima facie case, the burden shifts to the non-moving party to set forth specific facts demonstrated by evidence, “from which a rational trier of fact” could find in its favor.9 “Great circumspection is required where summary judgment is sought on an issue involving state of mind.”10 If the nonmoving party fails to timely respond to the summary judgment motion, they waive the right to respond or to controvert the facts asserted.11 “The court should accept as true all material facts asserted and properly supported in the summary judgment motion. But only if those facts entitle the moving party to judgment as a matter of law should the court grant summary judgment.”12

B. Collateral Estoppel

The Court will first address the preclusive effect the Summary Judgment Order and State Court Judgment have on this proceeding. The doctrine of collateral estoppel

5 ECF No. 16.

6 Celotex Corp. v. Cattrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322 (1986).

7 Schwartz v. Bd. Of Maint. of Way Emp., 264 F.3d 1181, 1183 (10th Cir. 2001).

8 Sports Unlimited Inc. v. Lankford Enter., Inc., 275 F.3d 996, 999 (10th Cir. 2002).

9 Whitesel v. Sengenberger, 222 F.3d 861, 866 (10th Cir. 2000).

10In re Tilly, 286 B.R. 782, 792 (Bankr. D. Colo. 2002); Gelb v. Board of Elections of City of New York, 224 F.3d 149, 157 (2nd Cir.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Related

Grogan v. Garner
498 U.S. 279 (Supreme Court, 1991)
Kawaauhau v. Geiger
523 U.S. 57 (Supreme Court, 1998)
Whitesel v. Jefferson County
222 F.3d 861 (Tenth Circuit, 2000)
Reed v. Bennett
312 F.3d 1190 (Tenth Circuit, 2002)
Panalis v. Moore (In Re Moore)
357 F.3d 1125 (Tenth Circuit, 2004)
Palmacci v. Umpierrez
121 F.3d 781 (First Circuit, 1997)
Douglas J. Livernois v. Medical Disposables, Inc.
837 F.2d 1018 (Eleventh Circuit, 1988)
Cobe v. Smith (In Re Cobe)
229 B.R. 15 (Ninth Circuit, 1998)
Hernandez v. Dorado (In Re Dorado)
400 B.R. 304 (D. New Mexico, 2008)
Hill v. Putvin (In Re Putvin)
332 B.R. 619 (Tenth Circuit, 2005)
Federal Trade Commission v. Abeyta (In Re Abeyta)
387 B.R. 846 (D. New Mexico, 2008)
Bryant v. Tilley (In Re Tilley)
286 B.R. 782 (D. Colorado, 2002)
Rezin v. Barr (In Re Barr)
194 B.R. 1009 (N.D. Illinois, 1996)
Santiago v. Hernandez (In Re Hernandez)
452 B.R. 709 (N.D. Illinois, 2011)
Michaelson v. Michaelson
884 P.2d 695 (Supreme Court of Colorado, 1994)

Cite This Page — Counsel Stack

Bluebook (online)
All Terrain Ponds and Sprinklers, LLC, d/b/a All Terrain Landscaping v. Tyler J. Moody, d/b/a TyBuild Custom Construction Innovations, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/all-terrain-ponds-and-sprinklers-llc-dba-all-terrain-landscaping-v-cob-2026.