No employee, or his widow or children, or either of them, or his parents, if there be no such widow or children, shall be entitled under this chapter to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury, and failed within a reasonable time to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer, or to some person superior to himself in the service of the employer who had entrusted to him some general superintendence.
History —Mar. 1, 1902, p. 150, § 8.