Supreme Court of North Carolina March 25, 1953, 739 (Wilkins v. Commercial Finance Co.)

EkviN, J.

The assignment of error based on the entry of the compulsory nonsuit is the only one requiring elaboration. The answer to the problem posed by this assignment of error is to be found in this well settled rule of law: “Since a party must succeed, if at all, on the case, claim, or defense set up in the pleadings, regardless of what is disclosed or established by the evidence, proofs, in