W. Va. Code § 34-1-4: Rights of owner.

The former owner may, at any time after, recover the valuation money, except the amount of the clerk's and printer's fees, and the fees of the justice and freeholders for the service mentioned in section one of this article and in this section, and such compensation for keeping the property down to the time when it became the property of the person so taking it up, as shall be certified under oath by any two freeholders in the county where the property was valued.