KRS 381.460: Occupant in good faith to be paid for improvements.

If any person, believing himself to be the owner by reason of a claim in law or equity

founded on a public record, peacefully occupies and improves any land, and the land,

upon judicial investigation, is held to belong to another, the value of the improvem ents

shall be paid by the successful party to the occupant, or the person under whom and for

whom he entered and holds, before the court rendering judgment or decree of eviction

causes the possession to be delivered to the successful party.