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NEALE v. HAGTHROP, 597
also located the possessions of John S. King, John Cator, Samuel
Moore, and George A. Hughes, and offered similar proofs of their
value. And the auditor has stated the accounts against these
defendants accordingly. The complainant has also located the
possessions of the defendant William McMechen, and offered
proof, that in 1818, the property might have been leased at a rent
of two dollars per foot fronting on Goodman street, and the audi-
tor adopts this evidence of value for the time since 1818. No
further proof has been offered of the value prior to 1818. The
complainant has located several small houses on the premises; but
has offered no proof that they were erected in 1797. The auditor
is not satisfied with his estimate of the value of this property prior
to the first of May, 1818; but having no data before him by which
it might be corrected, he has adopted it in his present account.
The auditor further says, that the complainant has located the
possessions of Edward Hagthrop and wife, and offered proof, that
the ground fronting on the Ferry road and Goodman street, might
have been leased, in 1818, at a rent of two dollars per foot. This
proof has been adopted by the auditor in his estimate herewith re-
turned. The auditor excludes any allowance for the rent of the
Mansion House, and the house on Light street since the first of
May, 1818; because there is no proof of their value independent
of the ground attached to them. And the estimates of their value
for the time prior to the first of May, 1818, seems defective as it is
predicated upon proof of their average value from 1797 to 1827;
whereas the proof should have been of their average value from
1797 to 1818. The estimate of the value of the property con-
veyed to William McMechen is unsatisfactory for the reasons be-
fore stated. The account, as stated, is nevertheless the best that
can be stated from the proofs before the auditor. The allowance
for the value of the bouse on Goodman street is increased to $1, 500
on the authority of the depositions of Thomas Childs and Richard
A. Shipley, filed 16th August, 1830. All the accounts are stated
with interest to this date.
To this report of the auditor, the defendant Edward Hagthrop
excepted; first, because the auditor had charged him with the sum
of two dollars per foot for the lands fronting on the Ferry road and
Goodman street, which was not sustained by the proofs. Second,
because the auditor had charged this defendant with the value of
certain negroes, personal property and chattels real, amounting to
$60, 667 30, when in truth such negroes, personal property and
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