Feuding Families Find No Joy in Court Victory : Suit: Both may have won the battle against eviction from Oceanside mobile home park, but they continue to wage their personal war.

Two feuding families successfully battled eviction notices from their Oceanside mobile home park Friday, where they have been engaged in a venomous dispute that has split the neighborhood.

Although they both won in court, they are both angry that the other family won as well.

“We won legally, but not really,” said Heidi Alexander, who moved into the El Camino 76 Mobile Estates three years ago and has been warring with the Colemans ever since.

“The eviction got overturned, but we still can’t move back to our house because the Colemans are there,” said Alexander, who moved into an apartment nine months ago but still maintains a residence in the park.

Margaret Coleman also was “very put out about” the Colemans’ semi-sweet victory, and reconciliation between the parties does not appear to be in the cards.

“As long as I am staying here, I don’t want to have anything to do with them. We can never be friends. I don’t want to talk to them, and I don’t want them to be talking to me,” said Coleman, who, with her husband, Otis, has lived in the mobile home park on North El Camino Real for 15 years.

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 have also involved the Colemans’ grandson, 19-year-old Heath Sims, who until recently lived with the Colemans and still visits frequently.

The families won court restraining orders against one another, but to no avail. Even the city attorney’s office intervened to seek a mediation hearing, an overture that ended in failure.

The situation finally reached a point last November where the park owner, Fritz Neumann, filed eviction notices against the two families. Both families fought the evictions in a court hearing that began this week.

In the most recent criminal action in this long-standing dispute, Heath Sims was arrested Tuesday for allegedly threatening a witness at the court hearing Monday, police said.

“Heath Sims was arrested for dissuading a witness in an on-going court case,” said Oceanside police officer Bob George.

Sims allegedly made threats against Mary Hulsebus, one of the mobile home park tenants who testified in the case, telephoning her and saying: “I’m going to kill you . . . your kids will be killed,” officer George said.

Sims was being held on $5,000 bail in Vista jail as of Friday, George said.

The Colemans, for their part, filed complaints Thursday with the police against other residents in the park whom they accuse of making threatening phone calls on behalf of the Alexanders, Margaret Coleman said.

“They said, ‘Now I can blow your head off with this,’ ” said Coleman, who speculated that “this” meant a gun.

On Friday, after three days of hearings, the Colemans’ attorney, James Beall, asked Judge Harley Earwicker to dismiss the case on a technicality--the eviction notice had not been served properly--which the judge did.

Beall expects that Neumann will refile his motion, but said that “the Colemans were not a substantial annoyance to any other tenants or mobile home owners.”

Peter Yeoman, attorney for the Alexanders, also said that his clients are not at the root of the landlord’s troubles, saying “the best solution to this problem would be if Heath Sims were to be excluded from the park.”

Neither Neumann nor his attorney could be reached for comment.

In an apartment eviction, a landlord simply has to give tenants 30-day notice to leave, without providing a reason. But, in a mobile home park, where coaches are difficult to move and tenants have often made significant investments in them, landlords must show a cause for eviction.