Notice of the injury and claim for compensation.
Section 24
SEC. 24. Notice of the injury and claim for compensation.—No compensation proceeding under this Act shall prosper unless the employer has been given notice of the injury as soon as possible after the same was received, and unless a claim for compensation was made not later than two months after the date of the injury, or in case of death, not later than three months after death, regardless of whether or not compensation was claimed by the employee himself. Such notice may be given and such claim made by any person considering himself entitled to the compensation or by any other person in his behalf. In case medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies have been furnished voluntarily by the employer, notice of the injury within the time limit above mentioned shall not be necessary, and if the employer has voluntarily made the compensation payments, the claim for compensation to be made within the time limits above established shall no longer be necessary.