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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1941 / Served to 1942

Gilbert Bettman

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

Gilbert Bettman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1941. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1881–1942
Tenure: 1941–1942 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1941	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Education

Harvard University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bettman authored 19 published opinions for the court (1941–1942), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Direct Plumbing Supply Co. v. City of Dayton (110 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 1 of these was attributed to Bettman by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1941	Direct Plumbing Supply Co. v. City of Dayton	38 N.E.2d 70	110
1942	State Ex Rel. Synod of Ohio of United Lutheran Church in America v. Joseph	39 N.E.2d 515	73
1941	Bigelow v. Brumley	37 N.E.2d 584	68
1941	Couk v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.	33 N.E.2d 9	46
1941	State, Ex Rel. v. Bigelow	37 N.E.2d 41	34
1941	State, Ex Rel. v. Indus. Comm.	37 N.E.2d 595	26
1942	Palumbo v. Industrial Commission	42 N.E.2d 766	24
1942	Fiddler v. Board of Tax Appeals	42 N.E.2d 151	8
1942	In Re Martin, Jr.	41 N.E.2d 702	8
1941	City of Bellevue Ex Rel. Vickery v. Stedman	34 N.E.2d 769	8
1941	Townley v. A. C. Miller Co.	38 N.E.2d 578	7
1942	Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co. v. West	42 N.E.2d 906	4
1941	Merchants Finance Co. v. Goldweber	35 N.E.2d 779	4
1941	Ferguson v. Industrial Commission· Dissent	37 N.E.2d 194	3
1941	State Ex Rel. Tietje v. Collett	35 N.E.2d 568	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 20 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Ohio reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Gilbert Bettman on?: Gilbert Bettman was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

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1 year on the Supreme Court of Ohio. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).