Whose family owned possession of the disputed land after the lawsuit?

According to the short story, there was a famous court case a few generations ago between the grandfathers of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym over a tract of land. The courts favored Ulrich's family.  This ruling is not surprising, because Ulrich's family was wealthy.  Therefore, the land belonged to them, even though the land was not particularly good.

However, the Znaeyms never accepted the ruling. They continued to use the land. When they did...

According to the short story, there was a famous court case a few generations ago between the grandfathers of Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym over a tract of land. The courts favored Ulrich's family.  This ruling is not surprising, because Ulrich's family was wealthy.  Therefore, the land belonged to them, even though the land was not particularly good.

However, the Znaeyms never accepted the ruling. They continued to use the land. When they did this, Ulrich's family saw them an interlopers and a great feud began. Here is what the text says:

A famous lawsuit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the ille- gal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for hree generations.

The irony of the whole dispute is that neither party considered the fact that the land might not belong to either of them.  In their worldview, land could be owned, but in the end the real inhabitants of that tract of land, wolves, came and killed them both.