Pinkerton v. Carnaggio

Goolsby, Judge:

*296This is an action for an accounting in which Lurlyn Springs Pinkerton and William D. Springs seek to have their stepsister, Ann Carnaggio Jones, account to the estate of her father, Tony Carnaggio, for $10,000 that she allegedly took from him prior to his death. Pinkerton and Springs appeal the holding of the master1 that their stepfather made a gift of the $10,000 to Jones. Pinkerton and Springs, pointing to the Dead Man’s Statute, S.C. Code Ann. § 19-11-20 (1985),2 charge the master with error in admitting Jones’ statement that her father made a gift to her of the $10,000…