Patterson v. Southern Railway Co.

In Parsley v. Nicholson, 65 N. C., 207, it is said: “The ■object of pleading, both in the old and new systems, is to produce proper .issues of law or of fact, so that justice may be administered between ■parties litigant, with regularity and certainty.” Pleadings serve to con:fine the controversy between the parties to some issue relating to a justiciable cause, so that the field of investigation may be defined and brought within reasonable limits. A party to an action is entitled as a matter of right to put into his pleading a concise statement of the facts constituting his cause of action…