BOBBITT, Justice.
Compliance with the Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, 254 N.C. 783 et seq., is mandatory. Rule 19(1) requires that the pleadings shall be a part of the transcript in all cases. Rule 20(1) provides that memoranda of pleadings will not be received or recognized in the Supreme Court as pleadings, even by consent of counsel. "The absence of the complaint from the record makes is necessary to dismiss the appeal." Thrush v. Thrush,
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