Dr. John Pemberton could never have imagined it coming to this. Working in his Atlanta pharmacy in 1886, the inventor of Coca-Cola surely could never have foreseen that, nearly 150 years later, the question of how big a cup of soda could be sold to the general public would be fodder for the courts. Yet that’s exactly the case, as the courtroom war over whether the city of New York can ban the size of sugary drinks wages on.