Simandle v. Vista De Santa Barbara Associates, LP

Opinion

YEGAN, J.

Ronald Simandle and Warren Simandle appeal from a judgment entered after the trial court found that appellants abandoned a statutory right under the Mobilehome Residency Law (Civ. Code, §§ 798, 798.78, subd. (a)) to sell their parents’ mobilehome at the Vista de Santa Barbara Mobilehome Park. The trial court ruled that park owner, respondent Vista de Santa Barbara Associates, LP, could remove the mobilehome at appellants’ expense. (§ 798.78, subd. (b).)

Appellants argue, inter alia, that the law abhors a forfeiture. This is true but the law also abhors a public and private…