Principal, Worthy Niver, Architect, Spokane, WA, c. 1923; Niver was involved in a significant court case ruled on by the Washington State Supreme Court, Niver v. Nash, 7 Washington, 558, decided 12/30/1893. (See "Legal Decisions," American Architect, vol. CXXIV, no. 2432, 11/07/1923, p. 422.) The case considered whether Niver should collect fees for a brick building of his design that was promised to be well-planned and of a "first-class" nature. The defendant, L.B. Nash, counterclaimed that the building was neither first-class nor well planned and promised, and that we would not pay for such a contracted product. A lower court rejected Nash's counterclaim for procedural reasons. The Supreme Court found that Niver had not delivered what he had promised, and remanded the case for retrial. This decision probably did not buoy either Niver's spirits or business.