Eibel Process Co. v. Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co.

Mr» Chief Justice Taft,

after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The evidence in the case establishes that before Eibel entered the field, continued high speeds in the wire of the Fourdrinier machine much beyond five hundred feet a minute resulted in defective paper. Eibel concluded that this was due to the disturbance and ripples in the stock as it was forming at a point between the breast roll and the first suction box, caused by the fact that at that point the wire was travelling much faster than the stock, and that if at that point the speed of the flowing stock…