Olin R. Moyle
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Olin Moyle was a Jehovah's Witness and an attorney. He is best known for suing the Society's headquarters staff for libel, for an October 15, 1939 article in The Watchtower publication of the Society.[1]
On July 21, 1939 Moyle sent Joseph Rutherford an open letter of resignation[2]. Prior to this, Moyle and Rutherford had practice law together, and had represented the Society jointly in various lawsuits.[3] Joseph Rutherford was the president of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, otherwise known as the Jehovah's Witnesses, from 1917-1942.
The letter accused Rutherford and others of inappropriate behavior, not befitting a Society member. It particularly listed certain actions of Rutherford himself that Moyle considered inappropriate. After Moyle resigned from the Watchtower, Rutherford responded via an article in The Watchtower which said "every paragraph of that letter is false, filled with lies, and is a wicked slander and a libel." Moyle sued the Watchtower leaders in court over Rutherford’s Watchtower article. He won his libel case, and the court awarded him damages of $30,000.
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