West Virginia Code § 54-2-13

Entry on land on payment of compensation
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After such report has once been made, whether it be set aside, recommitted, or new
commissioners appointed, or not, or whether a trial by jury be demanded and had or not, the
applicant upon paying into court the sum ascertained by such report, with ten percent
interest thereon from the date of the filing of the petition until payment, may,
notwithstanding the pendency of further proceedings, enter upon, take and euse for the
purposes specified in the application, that part of the land and property in respect to which
such payment is made, and where such payment has been made and porssession taken, or
where payment has been made without taking such possession in a pending case, it shall
have the same effect as if such payment were made or possession taken, or both, in a case
hereafter commenced; and no order shall be made or any injunction awarded by any court or
judge to stay it in so doing, unless it be manifest that the apptlicant is insolvent or that it or
its officers, agents or servants, are transcending their authority, or that such interposition is
necessary to prevent injury which cannot be adequately compensated in damages: Provided,
That if the applicant be other than a corporate body politic, before entering upon or taking
possession of such property, it shall enter into bond before the court, or judge thereof in
vacation, in a penalty prescribed by the judge, with securities approved by him conditioned
for the payment to the owner of any additional sums which may be awarded against it in
subsequent proceedings as additional compensation and damages for the property so taken.
And where, under authority of section ten, article one of this chapter, wood, earth, gravel,
shale, stone, water or other meaterial are sought to be taken, impounded or consumed, the
applicant, after such report has been made, whether it be set aside, recommitted or new
commissioners appointeLd, or not, or whether a trial by jury be demanded and had, or not,
may, upon payment into court as aforesaid of the sum ascertained by the report of such
commissioners, notw ithstanding the pendency of further proceedings, take, impound or
consume such wood, earth, gravel, shale, stone, water or other material; and all the
foregoing provisions of this section as to injunction and bond shall be applicable to such
case.

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