Petru v. Bass

*946OPINION

MURPHY, Justice.

In this original proceeding, Ronald Gene Petru, relator and natural father of the minor child, seeks a writ of mandamus directing the respondent, Honorable Ogden Bass, to set aside his prior order and to grant a writ of habeas corpus ordering Robert Duane Armstrong and Oletta Faye Armstrong to surrender the minor child to relator. We now conditionally grant the writ.

Although relator claims that the minor child lived with his natural parents, relator and Patricia Petru, until the death of Patricia Petru in April 1988, the record reflects that the natural parents gave…