The jury, in fixing and assessing such value and damages, shall estimate against the defendant the annual value of such part of the premises (if any) as was improved and in a state fit and prepared for cultivation at the time he took possession thereof, and also the damages for waste or other injury to the premises committed by the defendant, and shall credit him with the value of all the improvements made thereon, but no charge shall be made against the tenant for the use of any improvements made upon the land by him or for the use of any part of the land cleared by him
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