The suit was filed in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, in Equity, over the Company's objection to construction of an elevated pedestrian walkway (viaduct) adjacent to its factory on Canal Street. The viaduct was intended to provide a safe way for people to cross the Louisville & Nashville Railroad tracks on their way to the Canal Street Ferry terminal. The Company claimed that the structure would make its property less valuable and that it would create dust and limit light in the factory building.

These documents are copies of testimony made during that portion of the suit relative to the amount of compensation due the Company for the injury that it would suffer from the presence of the viaduct. In addition to transcripts of the direct testimony, there is also what appears to be a 24-page edited version of the testimony for the Company, presented in a narrative format (filed in folder 3). Additional documentation on this matter, as well as on other issues raised in the proceedings, should be contained in the original records at the National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas.

(Folder 1) Witnesses for the City were: John Klorer, City Engineer; Meyer Eiseman, President of Meyer Eiseman Company [real estate]; Samuel Young, Chief Engineer of the Board of Port Commissioners; W. A. Kernaghan, auctioneer & real estate agent; Colonel Allison Owen, architect; James A. Brennan, real estate auctioneer & agent; Ralph P. Nolan, General Manager of the Algiers Public Service Ferry Company; L. A. Bernard; Samuel Scordill; Paul Maloney, Commissioner of Public Utilities.

(Folder 2) Witnesses for the Company were: Hamilton R. Horsey, Executive Vice-President of the Company; James P. Butler, President of the Canal-Commercial Bank & Trust Company; Charles A. Tessier of the Tessier & Son real estate firm; Charles deB. Claiborne, Executive Vice-President of the Whitney-Central Bank; George J. Glover, contractor for the Coca-Cola building; and Ernest A. Carrere of the Ernest A. Carrere Sons real estate firm.

The testimony deals for the most part with the design of both the Coca-Cola building and the viaduct, the effect that the latter will have on the building, property values in the area, and the effect that the viaduct will have on the value of the Company's property.