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sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item.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. Warning: template has been deprecated.
United States Supreme Court
Leland v. Mobile County
Argued: March 10, 1908. --- Decided: April 6, 1908
Mr. Burwell B. Boone for plaintiffs in error.
No appearance for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court:
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