Does a bankruptcy judge have power to compel a third party to surrender a property to the trustee?

In the case of Mueller v. Nugent, 184 U.S. 1, 22 Sup.Ct. 269, 46 L.Ed. 405, it was not denied that the property in question belonged to the bankrupt, but the proposition was (see pages 13, 14, 15) that as matter of law, the property having come into the hands of a third party as agent of the bankrupt before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, the bankruptcy court had no power by summary proceedings to compel its surrender to the trustee, even though the agent asserted no adverse claim to it. The court held against the contention, and sustained the power of the bankruptcy court to take the property by summary process. It is manifest that that case is entirely different from the present one.