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Supreme Court of Ohio / Joined 1959 / Served to 1960

John Weld Peck II

Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio

John Weld Peck II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–1993
Tenure: 1959–1960 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Supreme Court of Ohio	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Peck authored 15 published opinions for the court (1959–1960), plus 2 dissents and 1 concurrence.

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 18 of these were attributed to Peck 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
1960	State ex rel. Lindemann v. Preston†	171 Ohio St. (N.S.) 303
1960	Corpman v. Boyer†	171 Ohio St. (N.S.) 233
1960	White v. Ohio Power Co.†	171 Ohio St. (N.S.) 148
1960	State v. Rutherford· Dissent†	171 Ohio St. (N.S.) 118
1960	Joslyn Mfg. & Supply Co. v. Bowers†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 575
1960	Mitchell v. Mitchell†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 507
1960	State v. Glaros· Dissent†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 471
1960	Queen City Savings & Loan Co. v. Foley†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 383
1960	Allen V. Smith, Inc. v. Bowers†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 398
1960	State ex rel. Allison v. Jones· Concurrence†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 323
1960	State ex rel. Petit v. Wagner†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 297
1959	Henry's Cafe, Inc. v. Board of Liquor Control†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 233
1959	Bennett v. Swift & Co.†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 168
1959	Comerford v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 117
1959	Benua v. City of Columbus†	170 Ohio St. (N.S.) 64

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 John Weld Peck II on?: John Weld Peck II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

Sources

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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).