Enable Midstream Partners LP is based at Leadership Square in downtown Oklahoma City. A group of American Indian landowners has sued the company over access to a natural gas pipeline in Caddo County. [PHOTO PROVIDED]

A group of American Indian landowners in Caddo County this week filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma City-based Enable Midstream Partners, saying the company has not properly paid for access to a natural gas pipeline.

The suit was filed Monday on behalf of 37 individual owners of land in Caddo County within the original territorial boundaries of the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma. The Emaugobah Kiowa Allotment 84 is held in trust by the federal government, the lawsuit stated, and no right of way through the allotment can be granted without approval of the federal government and the consent of the majority of the landowners.

Enable spokesman Brian Alford said the company has not yet seen the lawsuit.

"We have not yet been served, so it would be premature for us to comment," Alford said.