If the defendant, or his heirs or assigns, shall, after the premises are so relinquished to him be evicted thereof by force of any better title than that of the original plaintiff, the person so evicted may recover from such plaintiff, or his representatives, the amount so paid for the premise, as so much money had and received by such plaintiff, in his lifetime, for the use of such person, with lawful interest thereon from the time of such payment.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale
Article 5. Allowance for Improvements
§55-5-1. Method of Asserting Claim
§55-5-2. Valuation of Improvements Made by Defendant Before Notice of Title
§55-5-4. Same -- for What Period Defendant Liable
§55-5-5. Verdict for Balance After Damages Set Off Against Improvements; Entry of Judgment
§55-5-7. Reimbursement of Life Tenant by Remainderman or Reversioner
§55-5-8. Exception as to Mortgagees and Trustees
§55-5-9. Plaintiff May Require His Estate Only to Be Valued -- by Entry on Record
§55-5-10. Same -- How Estimated
§55-5-11. Same -- Relinquishment of Estate to Defendant at Value Ascertained
§55-5-12. Same -- Same -- How Value Paid; Sale of Land for Failure to Make Payments; Deficiency
§55-5-13. Same -- Same -- Disposition of Value When Party Under Disability
§55-5-14. Same -- Same -- Eviction of Defendant; Recovery of Amount Paid