Yugoslav-American Cultural Center, Inc. v. Parkway Bank & Trust Co.

This suit was brought as a four-count complaint by plaintiff, Yugoslav-American Cultural Center, Inc. (hereinafter YACC), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation. The principal defendants were YACC’s president, Petar Pavlovic, and its secretary, Vucko Barjactarevic. YACC claimed that Pavlovic and Barjactarevic conveyed land and a building owned by YACC without membership approval. Further, YACC claimed that Pavlovic and Barjactarevic fraudulently sold the building to a corporation Barjactarevic controlled with defendant Branko Tupanjac. Although YACC’s complaint sounded, in part, on claims of…