Feuding Families Served Walking Papers : Law: Years of a “Hatfield and McCoy-type situation” in Oceanside mobile home park may finally be resolved with eviction notices.

A notorious feud may be ending in Oceanside, where two warring families face eviction after years of conflict that has embroiled a neighborhood, said city police and the district attorney’s office.

The owner of El Camino 76 Mobile Estates has informed the families, Grada Alexander and daughter Heidi Alexander and their neighbors, Otis and Margaret Coleman, that they must leave and remove their mobile homes by Dec. 18.

An eviction notice to the Alexanders alleges “verbal obscenities to other tenants, verbal threats, damaging other tenants’ homes and cars with paint and food, throwing rocks and other objects (at) tenants and their homes, and vandalism.”

The notice is signed by James E. Fitzsimmons, the attorney for mobile home park owner Fritz Neumann. A similar eviction notice has been delivered to the Coleman family, although a copy couldn’t be obtained Monday.

In recent years, police have responded to hundreds of calls stemming from the chronic dispute between the Alexanders and the Colemans. Allegations of vandalism and other complaints also involve the Colemans’ grandson, 18-year-old Heath Sims, who lives with the Colemans.

The situation has gotten so bad that police have made numerous arrests in the neighborhood and, with the district attorney’s office, have been sorting through 20 misdemeanor cases and trying to determine whether to prosecute.

Further, the feuding families have won court restraining orders against one another, but to no avail. Even the city attorney’s office has intervened to seek a mediation hearing, but that overture has failed to end the fighting.

Oceanside police Officer Bob George said Monday that conditions finally reached the point where the park owner asked authorities to provide incident reports to help oust the Alexanders and the Colemans.

“The owner said, ‘I want them out, and I need public records to substantiate’ ” the grounds for eviction, George said.

According to George, police “have tried to work with the park for several years. We’ve had meetings, and we’ve had restraining orders against each (family), and we’ve arrested people.”

But nothing has worked, and both police and district attorney representatives have called the feud among the worst they’ve ever seen.

George has termed it “a regular Hatfield and McCoy-type situation out there.”

The eviction notices informed each party that they may sell their mobile home, “but you may not represent that it may remain at its present location after it is sold; in fact, it may not and must be removed on sale.”

On Monday, “FOR SALE” signs were visible on the Alexander and Coleman mobile homes.

Heidi Alexander said she and her mother are contesting the eviction, and she produced a letter from the Alexander’s attorney, Peter Yeomans, denying the allegations against them.

The letter to Fitzsimmons said “the assertion . . . that my clients have caused ‘substantial annoyance to other homeowners or residents is without basis, is irresponsible, and constitutes liable ( sic ) . “

Attorney Steve Moore, who has represented Heath Sims, couldn’t be reached for comment Monday, and the Colemans have declined to discuss the feud.