MARSHALL, Ch. J. after stating the facts of the case, delivered the opinion of the court, as follows, viz.
It has been decided in this court, that during the existence of such a detention as amounts to a technical total loss, the assured may abandon; but it has also been decided that the state of the fact must concur with the state of information to make this abandonment effectual. The technical total loss, therefore, occasioned by the capture and detention at Mole...
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