What is the line between reconstruction and remodeling? Does a building need to be razed to the ground in order to be rebuilt? These are the questions Nestle Purina PetCare brought to the state Court of Appeals Thursday as the company made moves to get out of an exclusive contract with Georgia Power under an exception to the state’s Electric Territorial Services Act.

Curtis Romig of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, representing Nestle, and David Cook of Autry Hall & Cook, representing Walton Electric Membership Corp., are intervenors appealing a Hart County Superior Court ruling in favor of plaintiff-appellee Georgia Power. The appeal comes after the superior court overturned the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC)’s decision to allow a Nestle factory to switch electricity providers after it turned a factory originally intended for manufacturing textiles into a cat food plant.