[1] He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1918,[2] and was admitted to the Ohio Bar June 24, 1918, and to the bar of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio June 25, 1919.

[2] On April 5, 1924, Ohio Governor A. Victor Donahey appointed Weygandt to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

[2] In November, 1930 Weygandt was elected to complete a term on the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals.

He had served two years when he ran for Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court as the Democratic nominee against incumbent Republican Carrington T. Marshall.

[2] Weygandt ran unopposed in the May, 1962 Democratic primary, and faced fellow justice Kingsley A. Taft in the general election.