When the defendant shall claim allowance for improvements, as before provided, the plaintiff may, by an entry on the record, require that the value of his estate in the premises, without the improvements, shall also be ascertained.
W. Va. Code § 55-5-9
Plaintiff may require his estate only to be valued -- By entry on record
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