Given the growing popularity of in-vitro fertilization, it was just a matter of time before a case like this one arose. During nine years of marriage, Junior Davis, 30, and his wife Mary Sue, 28, tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to have a child. That experience led the couple six years ago to a fertility clinic in Knoxville, where eggs taken from Mrs. Davis were fertilized in a laboratory with her husband's semen.
Several unsuccessful attempts to implant them in her uterus followed. Meanwhile the marriage disintegrated. Last month, when the couple began divorce proceedings, seven of the fertilized eggs remained in...
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