What is the duty of the court when a pleading fails to comply with procedural imperatives?
It is a settled rule that a tribunal may at any time take judicial notice of the records of a case pending before it, and satisfy itself that copies of the pleadings filed by the parties are in the numbers required by its rules. The failure of a pleading to comply with such procedural imperative set by the court, leaves the latter the discretion either to reject that pleading or order completion of the number of copies thereof. Where, however, the party whose pleading has been shunted aside offers to show that it has fully complied with the requirements of the rules and that the records kept by the tribunal contain inaccurate entries, the latter body should pause and listen, and give that party a day in court.
