Ware & Leland v. Mobile County

Infobox SCOTUS case
Litigants=Ware & Leland v. Mobile County
ArgueDate=March 10
ArgueYear=1908
DecideDate=April 8
DecideYear=1908
FullName=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
Citation=28 Sup. Ct. 526, 14 Ann. Cas. 1031
USVol=209
USPage=45
Prior=Judgment for defendants,
Subsequent=
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.
SCOTUS=1906-1909
Majority=Day
LawsApplied=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.

ee also

* List of United States Supreme Court cases on commodity and futures regulation
* List of sources of law in the United States