BOARDMAN Rulli brothers in dispute over store

Frank Rulli has filed a complaint attempting to get the store restored to him.
BOARDMAN -- The owner of Rulli Bros. Austintown supermarket wants his brother's competing supermarket to be evicted from its South Avenue location in Boardman, and he's asking an appeals court to make Mahoning County Sheriff Randall Wellington do the job.
Frank Rulli, owner of the Austintown store on Kirk Road, paid $825,000 in October 2001, for the building and property that houses his brother Anthony's competing business, Rulli Bros. Market in Boardman.
The sale was ordered by a bankruptcy court judge to reorganize debts incurred by Anthony Rulli and his wife, Karen, under their personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
Since then, however, both supermarkets have continued to operate as usual, except for a "For Sale" sign posted in the window of the Boardman store which lists the Austintown store as a contact number.
Complaint
Frank Rulli filed a complaint this week with the Ohio 7th District Court of Appeals claiming that Sheriff Wellington has failed to remove Rulli Bros. Market from the premises and failed to restore the Boardman site to him, despite an order issued July 31 by the Mahoning County Clerk of Courts.
The complaint asks the court to compel the sheriff to remove Rulli Bros. Inc.
Sheriff Wellington declined to comment, saying he had not yet seen the complaint. Karen Rulli, reached at the Boardman store late Tuesday, also declined to comment. Neither Frank Rulli nor Anthony Rulli could be reached.
The clerk's order was issued, the complaint states, after the appeals court affirmed a previous decision by the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court which granted Frank Rulli the right to possession of the property and building at 5780 South Ave.
Judge William Bodoh, the federal bankruptcy judge who ordered and approved the sale two years ago, wrote then that the property should be transferred to the new owner "as soon as practicable."