Anthony Teong-Chan Gaw as Transferee of Radcliffe Investment LTD. - Page 98

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            credit).9  That letter of credit guaranteed the original BB Loan                               
            No. 1, was in the same amount as that loan, and expired on May                                 
            17, 1985, the same date on which the original BB Loan No. 1 was                                
            due.                                                                                           
                  Radcliffe promised in the May 16, 1984 letter to indemnify                               
            Bangkok Bank HK branch for any losses whatsoever that it might                                 
            incur with respect to the $1,000,000 standby letter of credit.                                 
            In addition to signing the May 16, 1984 letter on behalf of                                    
            Radcliffe, petitioner signed it in his individual capacity,                                    
            stating that he "join[ed] in the above guarantee" to Bangkok Bank                              
            HK branch reflected in that letter.                                                            
                  A deposit of $450,000 in the name of Intercontinental                                    
            (Intercontinental $450,000 deposit) in Bangkok Bank HK branch was                              
            pledged as security for the $1,000,000 standby letter of credit.                               
                  The interest rate on the original BB Loan No. 1 was initial-                             
            ly set at 1.5 percent above Bangkok Bank LA branch's prime rate,                               
            but was subsequently reduced, effective November 1, 1984, to .75                               


            9  The parties stipulated that the $1,000,000 standby letter of                                
            credit was issued with respect to petitioner.  However, the                                    
            records of the Los Angeles and Hong Kong branches of Bangkok Bank                              
            Ltd. unequivocally indicate that the $1,000,000 standby letter of                              
            credit was issued with respect to Radcliffe.  Although we do not                               
            lightly disregard facts stipulated by the parties, we will do so                               
            "where justice requires it if the evidence contrary to the                                     
            stipulation is substantial or the stipulation is clearly contrary                              
            to facts disclosed by the record."  Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. v.                                   
            Commissioner, 93 T.C. 181, 195 (1989).  We find the parties'                                   
            stipulation that the $1,000,000 standby letter of credit was                                   
            issued with respect to petitioner to be clearly contrary to the                                
            facts disclosed in the record.  Therefore, we will not accept                                  
            that stipulation.                                                                              



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