Ware & Leland v. Mobile County

Ware & Leland v. Mobile County
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 10, 1908 Decided April 8, 1908
Full case name	Ware & Leland, a Copartnership, and J. H. Ware, E. F. Leland, Charles W. Lee, and F. J. Fahey v. Mobile County and the State of Alabama
Citations	209 U.S. 405 (more) 28 S. Ct. 526; 52 L. Ed. 855; 14 Ann. Cas. 1031
Case history
Prior	Judgment for defendants.
Holding
Contracts for the sales of cotton for future delivery which do not oblige interstate shipments are not subjects of interstate commerce, and that a state tax on persons engaged in buying and selling cotton for future delivery was held not to be a regulation of interstate commerce or beyond the power of the state.
Court membership
Chief Justice Melville Fuller Associate Justices John M. Harlan · David J. Brewer Edward D. White · Rufus W. Peckham Joseph McKenna · Oliver W. Holmes Jr. William R. Day · William H. Moody
Case opinion
Majority	Day, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
US Constitution Article I, Sec. 8.

Ware & Leland v. Mobile County, 209 U.S. 405 (1908), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that contracts for the sales of cotton for future delivery that do not oblige interstate shipments are not subjects of interstate commerce. The Court also held that a state tax on persons engaged in buying and selling cotton for future delivery was not a regulation of interstate commerce, and that the imposition of the tax was not beyond the power of the state.

See also

• Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States: military cotton contracts
• Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. ICC: appeals on cotton shipments
• List of United States Supreme Court cases on commodity and futures regulation

External links

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