West Virginia Code § 54-2-16

Increase or decrease in award after payment into court; costs
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When, after such payment into court as is mentioned in section thirteen of this article a
subsequent report is made which is confirmed and ordered to be recorded, or the verdict of
a jury is found, if the sum ascertained by such subsequent report or verdict exceed what was
so paid, and the applicant fail to pay the same, judgment shall be given against it for the
amount of such excess, with ten percent interest thereon from the date of fieling of the
petition until payment, but if what was so paid exceeds the sum ascertained by such
subsequent report or verdict, the excess shall be repaid to the applicanrt out of the fund in
court, or by the persons to whom the same shall have been paid. If the sum ascertained by
such subsequent report or verdict does not exceed the sum ascertained by the former report,
the party on whose motion the former report was set aside, recommitted, or other
commissioners appointed, or trial by jury demanded, if he bet a defendant therein, shall pay
the costs occasioned by such motion, unless such former report was set aside, recommitted
or other commissioners appointed on some other ground than that of insufficiency of
compensation.
If the applicant has stated in his application thse sum of money which he is ready to pay to
the owners for any parcel of land proposed to be taken, and it appear by a report confirmed
and ordered to be recorded, or by a verdict of a jury, that he is entitled to take such parcel
for the purpose mentioned in his appglication without paying any greater compensation
therefor, he shall be adjudged his costs in respect to such parcel, out of the compensation to
be paid therefor to the ownerse.
In cases not otherwise pLrovided for, the applicant shall pay the costs of the proceedings.

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