Legal Opinion
Bretz v. Mayer
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
Decided May 20, 1963No. 720748PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHoddinott, J.
(sitting by assignment from Monroe County). The jury in this libel action returned a verdict of $2,500 for the plaintiff, Emil Bretz. The defendant, Louis Mayer, moved alternatively for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.
Bretz, a man now in his late fifties, was born in Hungary. He received a theological education and served as an ordained Baptist minister there until middle life. In 1948, he came to the United States to assume the pastorate of the Shaker Square Hungarian Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He is now a citizen of this country.
Defendant, Louis Mayer, a…
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