The phrase "answer to the plaintiff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts when referring to a response or reply made by a defendant or other party to the claims made by the plaintiff in a lawsuit.
Example: "The defendant's answer to the plaintiff was filed with the court on Monday, addressing all allegations made in the complaint."
Alternatives: "response to the plaintiff" or "reply to the plaintiff".
A reply was put in to that answer; and subsequently the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company was made a party defendant, and filed a petition, which was ordered to be taken as its answer to the plaintiff's petition.
Usually, this can be accomplished by emailing or mailing the answer to the plaintiff.
For example, in Texas, you must file a written answer to the plaintiff's petition on or before 10 a.m. on the Monday after the expiration of 20 days after the date of service.
MSU and Zezulka filed answers and amended answers to the plaintiff's complaint, claiming state governmental immunity as a defense.
But, independently of considerations of this nature, there is another and complete answer to the pretensions of the plaintiffs.
The separate defenses set up in the answer to the amended complaint are: Failure of plaintiff to comply with Equity Rule 27 (28 USCA § 723), ratification, forum non conveniens, laches, and that the payments were justified.
Steve Banks, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society and counsel to the plaintiffs, said he believed the best answer to the current housing crisis was increased rent subsidies.
Note that if you file counterclaims, the plaintiff will have the opportunity to file his/her own answer to the counterclaims.
When Erin Murphy, a lawyer representing the Wisconsin state senate, started talking about plaintiffs' standing, Kennedy interrupted and asked the attorneys to assume the plaintiffs had standing, saying, "I'd like an answer to the question".
A default judgment is a court order finding in favor of the plaintiff and ordering the defendant to pay the plaintiff the amount requested in the complaint, based on the defendant's failure to answer to the lawsuit.
"(b) In addition to the other rights and duties a third-party defendant has under this article, he may, at the time he files his answer to the cross-complaint, file as a separate document a special answer alleging against the third-party plaintiff any defenses which the third-party plaintiff has to such cause of action.
