Navigator SMS Pipeline LLC has filed a number of lawsuits in Kingfisher County District Court to obtain easements from landowners for the first phase of its pipeline project.

The pipeline stretches from Calumet through the southwest corner of Kingfisher County and terminates in Cushing in Logan County.

State law provides a mechanism for private condemnation via lawsuit when parties can’t reach an agreement on easement purchases.

The process requires the appointment of three disinterested residents in each case to ascertain and assess estimated damages landowners may suffer to set a fair price for the easements.

According to petitions filed by Navigator SMS Pipeline, the company is seeking a perpetual 30-foot-wide easement across identified properties “for the purposes of constructing, installing, maintaining, operating, replacing, abandoning in place, inspecting, patrolling, protecting, testing, repairing, reconstructing, altering, relocating, changing the size of, removing and any and all uses” related to the pipeline and its associated equipment above and below ground.

The company also seeks the right to clear all trees and brush or other obstructions and restricting landowners from changing the elevation, planting trees or building a pond or building over the easement once the pipeline is installed, according to court documents.

Similar lawsuits have been filed in Canadian and Logan counties.

Some of the suits filed in this county have already been dismissed after the parties reached a settlement.

Condemnation suits filed April 23:

•Robert C. Alig, as trustee of the Robert C. Alig Revocable Trust; Harriet W. Alig, as trustee of the Harriet W. Alig Revocable Trust.

•Matt Alig; dismissed May 14.

•Wiley T. Hubbard, as trustee of the Wiley T. Hubbard Revocable Trust.

Filed May 1:

•Judith H. Grellner, aka Judy H. Grellner; dismissed May 7.

•William Grant Alexander; dismissed May 17.

Filed May 2:

•TWI Enterprises LLC; dismissed June 10.

•Cloise E. Johnson, Jr., and W. Kay Johnson, as trustees of the Johnson Family Trust; Annette Parham; C.E. Johnson Sr.; Francene Johnson; JV Real Estate LLC; Lori Michelle Johnson Sanders; David Michael Johnson and Robert Donald Johnson.

•Gregory Alan Rector and Cynthia Jeane Rector; dismissed May 20.

•Cowboy Real Estate LLC and JV Real Estate LLC.

•Claude S. Baca and Elizabeth A. Baca; dismissed May 17.

Filed May 8:

•Glenda Jeanine Frame.

Filed May 22:

•Angela Kay Knight, Lori Ann Rhine, Sue Ellen Filler, Carolee Marie Yost, Andrew T. Brueggen, Brett Leon Meyer and George Bernard Meyer.

•Lotocka LLC.

Filed May 29:

•Russel D. Fields.

•Tom-Stack LLC.