Objects of Pleadings

The sole object of a pleading is that each party may be alive to the questions that are about to be argued in order that they have an opportunity of bringing forward such evidence as may be appropriate to the issues. The rules of pleading and other ancillary rules contained in the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 have one main object in view to find out and narrow down the controversy between the parties concerned. The pleadings are to be so framed as not only to assist the party in the statement of his case but the court in its investigation of the truth between the litigants.