Kroger Co. v. Schneider

This is an appeal on questions of law. The Kroger Company, The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc., and Colonial Stores, Inc. (Albers Super Markets), corporations which operate chains of grocery supermarkets, food processing and storage facilities in many taxing districts in Ohio and elsewhere, brought suit in the court below for a declaratory judgment that Section 5711.22(B), Revised Code, is unconstitutional because it denies them the equal protection of the law guaranteed by the state and federal Constitutions.

These three corporations, appellees herein, were plaintiffs below. Louis…