John Pemberton who invented Coca-Cola", is chosen as one of the few people allowed to leave the city of Atlanta, just before it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean. In 2010, the Coca-Cola Company paid tribute to Pemberton as a key character in an advertising campaign called "Secret Formula". Centered on the secret ingredients of Coca-Cola, imagery related to Pemberton was used to make people more aware of Coke's history and mythology. In 2013, Pemberton was portrayed by Bill Hader in the "Atlanta" episode of Comedy Central's "Drunk History", created by Derek Waters. Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers have an album track
Stevenson v. Pemberton specified others creditors. Before Pemberton could sell the rum, Stevenson, who already held a judgment against C, sued Pemberton, seeking a writ of scire facias establishing Stevenson's right to the rum, or to first right to the proceeds of its sale. As Dallas wrote, "The Question on these Facts, as found by a special Verdict, was, Whether P[emberton]. should retain the Goods for the Payment of his own Debt, or whether the Property remained in C, so as to be liable to the Attachment of S[tevenson]? Stevenson's lawyer argued that since C consigned the rum to Pemberton with instructions to