| Court: | Queen's Bench (a major British appellate court) |
| Facts: | Young's boats are enclosing a school of fish, and are in the process of dropping a net into the last remaining opening when Hichens zooms in and catches a bunch of them. |
| Posture: | Appeal after a finding for Young (plaintiff) at initial hearing. |
| Issue: | Were the fish in Young's possession? |
| Holding: | No, they were not. |
| Rule: | You can't have possession of fish until you get actual power over them. |
| Reasoning: | He would have caught them, but that doesn't count. Only actually catching counts, and that's what Hichens did. |
| Dicta: | |