Durden v. Barron

Quillian, Chief Judge.

This appeal arose out of a custody action brought in October, 1979, by the natural mother of a minor child against the child’s paternal grandparents to whom custody had been awarded by decree entered in November, 1978. After an evidentiary hearing the trial judge found that it was in the “best interest” of the child that custody remain in the grandparents. Application for discretionary appeal was made by the mother which application was granted by this court.

After the appeal was filed in this court, we certified two *423questions to the Supreme Court. In answer to our first…